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Guarding Against the Snare of Sloth

Hamza Yusuf

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Is It a Natural Propensity?

The idea of sin is rooted in the in the actual Hebrew Arabic and the Greek terms for sin which are all archery terms. There is this kind of super vice or super sin which is Excessiveness I will that or deficient in the case of sloth. Each one of them has a positive aspect and it's there for a reason so like envy the positive aspect of it is admiration, lust is for the So that our species continues Gluttony is so that our bodies are maintained But but these become perverted loves and I think that's where the Florentine. explanation becomes very useful of seeing them as perversions of love either love perverted as in the the pride Anger envy

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