Lesson one hundred twenty seven :Divine chastisements !

Imam Bagher( A. S. )says:

إِنَّ لِلّهِ عُقُوباتٌ فِى الْقُلُوبِ وَ الْأَبْدان: ضَنْكٌ فِى الْمَعيشَةِ وَ وَهْنٌ فِى الْعِبادَةِ وَ ما ضُرِبَ عَبْدٌ بِعُقُوبَةٍ أَعْظَمُ مِنْ قَسْوَةِ الْقَلْبِ!

Translation

God has chastisements( for sins and disobedience )in the spirit and body: indigence in livelihood, indolence in worship, but God has not punished any servant with something worse than hard- heartedness..

Brief description

Divine chastisements are indeed reflections of man's actions as well as conclusions and results of his sins. Sometimes these bad ends appear as an unpleasant situation in material life and sometimes as deprivation from cheerfulness in worship and invocation with deity. But the most important and dangerous one is manifestation of crimes and man's ugly deeds in hard- heartedness and cruelty, evacuating man's heart from humanitarian feelings and any philanthropy and sympathy, and this could be the source of a lot of other sins and crimes.