Reasons for failure of creation

Shaqeeq Ibn Ibaraheem said: "The doors of success have been closed upon the creation because of six things:

• Their busying themselves with the blessings of Allah instead of thanking Allah for them;
• Their desire for knowledge while they abandon actions;
• The hastiness to sin and delaying repentance;
• The deception of having righteous companions and not taking them as examples;
• The turning away of the dunya from them while they chase it;
• The approach of the afterlife towards them while they turn away from it."

[Al Fawaai'd by Ibn Al Qayim: P. 161]