一个罪人始终处在撒旦和自身私欲的掌控之中。他/她被人类最大的敌人拘禁、囚困。没有什么监牢比卑劣的私欲更狭窄，也没有什么锁链比情欲更沉重。这样被拘禁、被囚困的心，怎能转向安拉和末日？当心被锁住时，各种疾病便从四面八方涌向它。先知ﷺ说："撒旦是人类的狼。"正如落单的羊任凭狼群摆布，一个人若没有安拉的庇护，便任凭他/她的狼（即恶魔）摆布。只有当一个人正直并敬畏其主时，安拉的庇护才会保护他/她。神的庇护使人免受今世和后世的惩罚。因此，只要人的心远离安拉，它就会遭受各种疾病；而心越接近安拉，就越远离各种疾病。远离安拉可分为多种类别，其中有些比另一些更为严重：疏忽和怠慢（某些义务）会使心远离安拉。因罪过而远离安拉，比因疏忽而远离安拉更为严重。因宗教中的异端创新而远离安拉，比因罪过而远离安拉更为严重。而因宗教中的伪信和以物配主而远离安拉，则是其中最为严重的。

A sinner is always in the grasp of Satan and his/her own desires. He/she is detained and imprisoned by the worst enemy of mankind. There is no narrower a prison than that of one's base desires, and there are no more dreadful a length of chains than that of passion. How could such a detained and imprisoned heart tum towards Allah and the Last Day? When the heart is chained, all types of ailments rush towards it from every side. The Prophet ti said: "Satan is a wolf for mankind." Just as an isolated sheep is at the mercy of wolves, a person without the protection of Allah ~' is at the mercy of his/her wolf (the devil). The Protection of Allah ~ would only safeguard one when one is righteous and fearful of one's Lord. Divine Protection saves one from the punishment of this world and the Hereafter. Therefore, whenever one's heart is distant from Allah ~. it is subjected to all sorts of ailments, and the closer it is to Allah ~. the more distant it is from all types of diseases. Distance from Allah ~ is classified under many categories; some of them are more serious than others: Carelessness and negligence ( of some obligations) distance the heart from Allah ~- The distancing from Allah caused by a sin is more serious than that caused by carelessness. The distancing from Allah caused by innovation in religion is more serious than that caused by a sin. But the distance from Allah caused by hypocrisy (in religion) and polytheism (associating partners to Allah) is the most serious of them all.