O sincere pious ones! O Muslim brothers who desire the advancement of Islam! This is the reason for the destruction of the Muslims and the reason for the daily degeneration of Muslims. Every person should look for one moment at not strangers, not his compatriots, but his house people, his juniors and his children and see how many sins they are involved in openly.
Do you even take note of it? Forget stopping them, do you even intend to stop them? Does it ever cross your heart that what is my son doing? If he does a crime, not a crime but he gets involved in a political party, then we worry about being affected by it. He is warned, and measures to prove him innocent is resorted to. However, will the guilty in front of the King of all Kings be treated like the guilty in front of a small temporary king?
(For example,) you know that your son has great enthusiasm for chess; he pleases his heart by playing cards and a few Salaah times pass as well. It is regrettable to note that the words “What are you doing?” do not even leave your mouth by mistake. This is not the work of Muslims. In reality, we are also commanded to leave eating and drinking with such a person (as was explained).
You will find a lot of people who will be unhappy with their sons because of them being lax, they laze around at home, do not make effort at work or he does not do the shop work promptly.
However, you will find very few who will be displeased with their sons, if they do not care about performing Salaah with Jama‘ah or they let the time of Salaah go by.
If these matters were such that it only had terrible consequences in the Aakhirah, then they are of such a standing that we should run very far away from them. However, it is Qiyaamah that the worldly losses (which we understand to be before the Aakhirah in practice) are in reality because of this. Think: is there any limit to this blindness?
وَمَن كَانَ فِي هَذِهِ أَعْمَى فَهُوَ فِي الْآخِرَةِ أَعْمَى وَأَضَلُّ سَبِيلًا
(الإسراء: ٧٢)
Whoever is blind (to the way to guidance and salvation) in this world will be blind to the Aakhirah (unable to see the way to Jannah). (1)
The reality is this:
خَتَمَ اللَّهُ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِمْ وَعَلَىٰ سَمْعِهِمْ ۖ وَعَلَىٰ أَبْصَارِهِمْ غِشَاوَةٌ ۖ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ عَظِيمٌ
(البقرة: ٧)
Allaah Ta‘ala has placed a seal upon their hearts (so that no good enters it) and upon their hearing (so they do not heed what they hear), while there is a veil over their eyes (so they do not see the truth). Theirs shall be a terrible (severe and eternal) punishment.
Fazaaile Amaal