GHÂFIL

 

The one who is in ghaflah. Careless. Thoughtless. Inattentive. Negligent. Heedless. Unaware.

A person who forgets Allah (‘Azza wa jalla), the âkhirah, death, or the purposes of his creation.

 

“One time when I awoke in the morning of old age from the sleep of the night of youth I looked at myself and saw that my life was hastening towards the grave as though racing down a slope. As Niyazi Misrî said:

Each day a stone from the building of my life falls to the ground;

Ghâfil! You slumber, unaware that the building is in ruins!” The Flashes ( 288 )