Ghaflah (غفلة) is the

Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter ...

word for ''negligence'' and ''heedlessness''. In an Islamic context, it is the sin of forgetting Allah and one's divine origins, or being indifferent of these. It is also the sin of purposeful misguiding, misleading or the deceiving of another, usually through falsity or by failure of full disclosure, through concealment, which keeps another in ignorance and ''heedlessness''.

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Ghaflah: The Sickness of Modern Man
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