罪过会影响人的心，使其不能尊崇主，也削弱其安宁的感受。若人的心中充满清醒与敬畏，便断不敢犯任何罪过。有些被欺骗的人说："促使我有时犯罪的，是希望获得真主慈悯的恩泽，而不是我心中对主的尊崇不足。"这纯粹是自欺；因为在心中尊崇真主，就是尊崇祂的圣洁，而这与犯任何罪过是相抵触的。那些肆无忌惮地沉溺于违抗真主之事的人，并未以祂应得的正确尊重来看待祂。这是真主的惩罚，它使祂的仆人心中的畏惧感消失，以致罪人会轻视他/她自己，正如他/她轻慢了真主的诫命一样。人们爱一个人的程度，取决于他/她对真主的爱的程度；人们敬畏他/她的程度，取决于他/她对真主敬畏的程度；人们赞美他/她的程度，取决于他/她对真主赞颂的程度。一个人若侵犯了真主的圣洁，又怎能指望别人不侵犯他/她的尊严呢？真主在祂的经典（《古兰经》）中，已阐明了罪过应受的惩罚。祂因大罪人所犯的罪行，使他们陷入不信之境。祂以他们的罪孽封印了他们的心，并使他们遗忘祂，正如他们遗忘了他们的主一样。祂使他们虚耗，正如他们曾虚耗了祂的宗教一样。真主在祂的经典中，在描述一切受造物向祂叩拜之后说道："凡真主使之受辱的人，就没有人能使他尊荣。"当他们轻视向真主叩拜，并拒绝履行时，祂便使他们蒙受羞辱；而他们既已被真主羞辱，便无人能使他们得到尊荣。

Sins affect one's heart so it fails to glorify the Lord ~ and weakens its sense of tranquillity. If one's heart was filled with sobriety it would not have dared to commit any sin. Some deceived people say: "What induces me sometimes to commit sins is the hope of benefiting from Allah's Mercy, not the weakness of glorifying Him in my heart." This is simply self-deception; because glorifying Allah ~ in one's heart means glorifying His Sanctity, which would oppose the committing of any sins. Those who boldly indulge in disobeying Allah ~ do not consider Him with the correct estimation due to Him~. This is a punishment from Allah ~ which removes the sense of fear from the hearts of His Servants, so that sinners would despise hitn/her the way he/she disrespected the Commands of Allah ~ - People love another person according to his/her level of love for Allah ~ ; they fear hitn/her according to the level of his/her fear of Allah; they praise him/her according to the level of his/her praise for Allah ~. How could a person violate the sanctity of Allah ~ and not expect people to violate his/her sanctity? Allah ~ has stated in His Book (the Qur'an) the punishment due for sins. He ~ cast the big sinners into a state of disbelief for what they had earned. He ~ sealed their hearts with their sins, and forgot them the way they had forgotten their Lord. He ~ wasted them the way they had wasted His Religion. Allah ~ stated in His Book, after describing the prostration of all His Creatures to Him: (Whomsoever Allah disgraces, none can honour him)1; when they despised the act of prostrating to Allah ~ and refused to perform it, He ~ disgraced them; and no one could honour them after they had been humiliated by Allah ~-