Ibrāhīm b. Adham was asked about the saying of Allaah (SWT):

“And your Lord Says: Call Upon me, I Will Answer your prayer…”  [Surah Ghaafir (40): 60]

We supplicate and we are not answered. So he said to them:

• You know Allah, Yet you do not obey Him,
• You recite the Qur’aan, Yet do not act according to it,
• You know Shaytaan, Yet you have agreed with him,
• You proclaim that you love the Messenger of Allah (Sallallaahu alaihi wa sallam), Yet you abandon his Sunnah,
• You proclaim your love for Paradise, Yet you do not act to gain it,
• You proclaim your fear for the Fire, Yet you do not prevent yourselves from sins,
• You say “Indeed death is true”, Yet you have not prepared for it,
• You engage yourselves with finding faults with others, Yet you do not look at your faults,
• You eat of that which Allah has provided for you, Yet you do not thank Him,
• You bury your dead, Yet you do not take a lesson from it.