Poem of Shaykh Ahmed Zarruq On diseases of soul

Shaykh Ahmad Zarruq has a beautiful poem on the diseases of the soul. Here is one small part (the beauty is lost but the meaning remains). "And from its diseases is burnout and neglect, and its not attempting to elevate and work hard/ And worse than that is it not caring about its shortcomings and not accusing itself/ And not seeing its shortcomings is even worse than those according to the specialists/ And even worse is to think one's soul is fine while it is in neglect and shortcoming/ Ugly in its sight is beautiful and its bad actions have been made to seem attractive/ That all stems from lack of sincerity in one's worship and their neglect of purifying themselves from spiritual maladies." The shaykh here is listing diseases of the soul and various levels of affliction. The first level is the person who finds themselves burnt out and neglectful towards their spiritual development but at the same time they feel no motivation to work towards its improvement. The next level is the one who recognizes their shortcomings but does not seek to address them. The level after that is the one who does not accuse themselves of shortcomings which leads to an inability to recognize one's flaws. When a person is not consistent in searching their soul for flaws they stop recognizing them all together and can fall into a state of arrogance and self-grandeur that is very dangerous for the soul. The stage after that which is even worse is the one thinks they are fine and they don't have any spiritual maladies while they are actually in a state of serious neglect. To this person the ugly seems beautiful and their bad deeds seem acceptable. They are in such a state of spiritual decay that their entire perspective on the world is out of order. Sin is okay to publicize, oppression is justifiable, and they are just fine. This is a very dangerous place to be in spiritually but one can see this all over the place. He then mentions the source of these diseases in a very brief way as being insincerity in action and a lack of concern for remedying the diseases of the soul. The lines that come after talk about the means for purifying the soul from the diseases mentioned. InshaAllah they will come in another post.