Haggai 1:7 Meaning This Is What Yahweh of Armies Says

Ghafla: Heedlessness Ghafla is the drift that sets in when nobody is watching their own life. From the inside nothing feels wrong: the days are full and the effort is steady. That fullness is what keeps the harder questions from ever coming up.

Call yourself to account before you are called to account: better to do the reckoning yourself Words of Umar, an early companion, repeated by Sufis ever since. Sooner or later a person's choices get added up. Doing that adding up yourself, while there is still room to change course, costs far less than having it done later, when nothing can be moved.

Muḥāsaba: Going over your own dealings Al-Ghazali describes this as a shopkeeper checking the books at closing time. A person sits with the plain details of a day, what got done, what got chosen, where the hours went. Most people find a wide gap between that and the story they have been telling themselves, and finding it is what starts anything moving.

Niyya: The aim behind what you do The Prophet taught that actions count by the intention behind them. Two people can pour the same years into the same work, one aiming at something that matters and one only feeding their own comfort. From outside the two look identical, so the sorting happens further in, in who the effort was for.

Whoever makes his cares one care, God takes care of the rest: scattered aims come to nothing A saying of the Prophet. Someone chasing six things at once gives each of them a thinned-out portion, and none of the six ever arrives. The effort feels enormous while the result stays small, and the reason is that the aims have been pulling against each other. Once they are gathered under one aim, the same effort starts to hold.