How to Start Worrying about Your Hereafter and Achieve True Success

<p>Excessive hope lack of fear of Allah and deluding oneself are illnesses that have contaminated people's hearts.</p><p> </p><p>The treatment of these diseases therefore requires medicine of intimidation and dissuasion.</p><p> </p><p>Indeed when the heart remains in this dreamy state treating it with doses of serenity would be equivalent to using on a person suffering from hypothermia a</p><p>medication that lowers body temperature.</p><p> </p><p>It is for this reason that Ibn al Jawzi has collected in this work terrifying stories warnings against sins stories describing punishments and stories that put the heart in an uncomfortable state.</p><p> </p><p>All this is done with the aim of making the confident anxious to soften hard hearts bring tears to dry eyes and motivate the lazy to do righteous actions.</p><p> </p><p>And it is with Allah that absolute success rests.</p>