Harms of hastiness

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*It can pose many risks

*A hasty person makes wrong judgements

*A hasty person’s future can be ruined

*A hasty person is not able to properly ponder over the advantages and disadvantages of an action before doing it, and usually ends up in loss

*He considers good to be bad, and bad to be good

*He blindly trusts everyone

*He becomes fearless in making a Shar’i judgement on everyone

*He is even careless in the matters of food and drink

*He causes harm to his organisation, movement and institute

*The example of the hasty individual is like the one who ‘listens to everyone but does his own thing’

*He violates the rights of others just to fulfil his own right

*It becomes a means of causing harms to other Muslims too and a hasty person has been condemned in the Quran also:

It is stated in part 15, Surah Bani Israel, verse 11:

وَ یَدْعُ الْاِنْسَانُ بِالشَّرِّ دُعَآءَهٗ بِالْخَیْرِؕ-وَ كَانَ الْاِنْسَانُ عَجُوْلًا(۱۱)

And (sometimes) man prays for evil just as he seeks goodness,
and man is very hasty.

[Kanz-ul-Iman (translation of Quran)] (Part. 15, Surah Bani Israel, Ayah 11)

Condemnation of hastiness

Under the abovementioned verse, it is stated in Tafseer Sirat-ul-Jinaan: It is stated in the end of this verse that ‘man is very hasty’. If we keep this in view, then it will remind us of a lot of people in our society who are unduly hasty in both religious and worldly matters. For example, in Wudu, Salah, Taraweeh, performing Hajj rites, recitation of the Holy Quran, fasting, ritual sacrifice, acceptance of Du’a, making Du’a against another, labelling someone a sinner,

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