The hasty one does not reach his goal just as the kind and gentle one is never superceded. The silent one is hardly ever blameworthy and the one who speaks frequently is hardly ever safe. The hasty one speaks before he knows anything and he answers before understanding anything. He praises another before gaining familiarity and he criticises after he has praised! He takes to resolve before giving thought and he moves onward without any resolve. Hastiness is always followed by regret and safety is not something that comes with it, and the Arabs used to call hastiness ‘the mother of all regrets.

We live in the age of Noah in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow and subtle drowning. For those who notice it, they engage in the remembrance of god. The rites of worship and devotion to god’s remembrance are planks of the ark. When Noah started to build his ark, his people mocked him and considered him a fool. But he kept building. He knew what was coming. And we know too.