to the youth who are heedless of worship and delay in repenting: As far as delaying repentance are concerned, one should seriously ponder that as many people of hell will be screaming due to their delay in repenting because one who delays makes his next life over which he has no power, the base of his matters. Perhaps he may not live until tomorrow and if he survives until tomorrow so the way he is unable to give up sins today perhaps he may not have the power over giving it up tomorrow as well. If only he could know that today the hurdle he is facing in the way of his repentance is indeed a victory for lust and lust will not get away from him even tomorrow, but rather it will increase. It further becomes strong due to his habit and the lust that a person makes strong due to his habit is not like the one which he does not make strong. Due to this reason, those who delayed in making repentance were destroyed because they understand the difference between two same things but do not think that it is difficult to get rid of lust; regarding this all the days are alike.

(Remember!) The example of the person delaying in making repentance is like the one who is allowed to uproot one tree but when he sees that the tree is strong and cannot be uprooted unless a very hard labour is made he says, ‘I will uproot it after a year.’ He knows that as long as the tree is there its roots will get stronger. As the age of the person who delays in making repentance increases, he gets weaker, so there is no one more foolish than him, who despite having power did not fight against the weak one and waited for it when he himself gets weak and the one which is weak when gets strong, he will overcome it. (Ihya-ul-‘Uloom, vol. 4, pp. 72)

جہاں میں ہیں عبرت کے ہر سو نُمونے     مگر تجھ کو اَندھا کیا رنگ و بُو نے

کبھی غور سے بھی یہ دیکھا ہے تُو نے     جو آباد تھے وہ مَحَل اب ہیں سُونے

جگہ جی لگانے کی دُنیا نہیں ہے          یہ عبرت کی جا ہے تماشا نہیں ہے

مِلے خاک میں اَہلِ شاں کیسے کیسے       مکیں ہو گئے لا مکاں کیسے کیسے

ہوئے ناموَر بے نشاں کیسے کیسے        زمیں کھا گئی نوجواں کیسے کیسے

جگہ جی لگانے کی دُنیا نہیں ہے          یہ عبرت کی جا ہے تماشا نہیں ہے