Al-Hasan Al-Basri, rahimahullah, alisema: "Allah ~ huwadhalilisha watenda dhambi kwa sababu waliasi amri Yake. Lau angewatukuza, angewalinda kutokana na kutenda dhambi; na wale ambao Allah ~ amewadhalilisha hawatakuwa na mtu wa kuwatukuza; kwani Yeye ~ amesema: (Yeyote ambaye Allah amemdhalilisha, hakuna awezaye kumtukuza)." Pia mtu huendelea kutenda dhambi hadi azione kuwa ni jambo dogo, na kadiri dhambi inavyoonekana kuwa ndogo kwa mtu, ndivyo inavyokuwa kubwa na nzito mbele ya Allah. Ibn Mas'ud ~ alisema: "Muumini huona dhambi zake kana kwamba ni chini ya mlima, ambao anahofia unaweza kumwangukia; ilhali mtenda dhambi huziona dhambi zake kama inzi wanaotua puani mwake, ambao huwafukuza na wakaruka."4

Al-Hasan Al-Basri, may Allah have mercy upon him, said: "Allah ~ disgraces them (sinners) as they disobeyed Him. If He ~ had honoured them, He ~ would have safeguarded them from committing sins; and those Allah ~ humiliates will have no one to honour them; for He ~ said: (Whomsoever Allah disgraces, none can honour him) 3 A person also continues to commit a sin until he attaches little importance to it, and the more a sin becomes insignificant to a person, the more it becomes serious and great in the Sight of Allah. Ibn Mas'ud ~ said: "A believer sees his sins as if they were the base of a mountain, which he fears might fall on him; whereas the sinner considers his sins like some flies landing on his nose, which he repels so they fly away."4