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1) Committing sins
and not feeling any guilt
2) Having a hard heart and
no desire to read the Quraan
3) Feeling lazy to do good deeds, e.g. being late for salaat
4) Neglecting the Sunnah
5) Having mood
swings, for instance being upset about petty things and being
bothered and irritated
most of the time.
6) Not feeling
anything when hearing verses from the Quraan, for intances
when Allah warns
us of punishments and his promise of glad tidings.
7) Finding difficulty in remembring Allah and making zikr.
8) Not feeling bad when things are done against the Shariah.
9) Having a desire for status.
10) Being mean and miserly, i.e. not wanting to part with wealth.
11) Ordering to do good deeds when we are not practising them ourselves.
12) Feeling pleased when things are not progressing for others.
13) People bothering
about whether something is haram or halal only;and not
avoiding makhruh
(not recommended) things.
14) Making fun
of people who do simple good deeds, like cleaning the
mosque.
15) When not feeling concerned about the situation of muslims.
16) Not feeling the responsibility to do something to promote islam.
17) Being unable
to deal with calamities, for instance crying and
yelling in funerals.
18) Liking to argue
just for the sake of arguing without any proof.
19) Becoming engrossed
and very involved for dunyah, i.e. wordly
things, for instance feeling
bad when losing something in terms of material
wealth.
20) Becoming engrossed
and obsessive in ourselves
2) Realise the greatness of Allah. Everything is under his control.
There are signs in everything we see that
points us to his greatness.
Everything happens according to his permission.
Allah keeps track and
looks after everything,
even a black ant on a blact rock in a dark
moonless night.
3) To make an effort
to gain knowledge, at least the basic things in
daily life e.g. how to make the wudu properly.
To know the meaning behind
Allah's name and attributes.
People who have taqwah are those who have
knowledge.
4) To attend gatherings
where Allah is remembered. In such gatherings
we are surrounded by angels.
5) We have to increase
our good deeds. One good deed leads to another
good deed. Someone who gives charity,
Allah will make way for him or her to
do good deeds easy for that person.
Good deeds must be done
continuously, not in spurts.
6) We must
fear a miserable end of our life; the rememderance of
death is the destroyer of pleasures
7) To remember
the different levels of akhirah, for instance when we
are put in our graves, when we are jugded, whether
we are in paradise or
hell.
8) Make duah, realise that we need Allah. Be humble. Not to have much
hope for wordly things in this life.
Remember that Allah gets angry when a servant
does not ask duaa.
9) Our love for
Allah Subhanallah Wa Ta'Allah must be shown in actions. We
must hope Allah will accept our prayers, and
be in constant fear that we do
wrong. At night before going to sleep, we must
think what good did we
do during the day, and what bad.
10) Realise the
effects of sins and disobediance- one's imaan is
increased with good deeds and our imaan
is decreased by bad deeds. Everything
that happens is because Allah wanted it. When
calamity befalls us- it is
also from Allah. It is a direct result of our
disobediance to Allah.