Those who die as a result of drowning, burning, of destitution, or from being crushed under a collapsing wall or other building, those who die of diarrhoea, of plague [or another hectic disease], during lochia, of an epileptic fit, on a Friday night, [which is the night between Thursday and Friday], or on a Friday, or while learning, teaching or propagating religious knowledge, those who fall in love and die in their efforts to suppress their love and protect their chastity, those who die during unjust imprisonment, those who die while serving as a muadhdhin for Allah’s sake, while trading as commanded by the Sharî’a or while working and earning halâl so that their household will learn religious knowledge and worship, those who say the prayer, “Allâhumma bârik lî fi-l-mawt wa fî-mâ ba’d al-mawt,” twenty-five times every day, those who perform the salât of Duhâ, those who fast three days each month, those who do not neglect their salât of witr while travelling, those who say the prayer, “Lâ ilâha illâ anta subhânaka innî kuntu min-az-zâlîmîn,” forty times on their deathbed, those who read the Sûrat-al Yasîn every night, those who go to bed with ablution and then die, those who always make mudârâ, [which means to dissimulate, to give away what is worldly in order to protect one’s faith], those who bring groceries and sell them cheaply, those who make ghusl in cold weather and become ill and die, those who say the prayer “A’ûdhu billâh-is-samî’il’alîmi min-ash-shaytân-ir-rajîm,” three times and the last part of the sûrat-al-Hashr every morning and every evening; all these people become martyrs of the Hereafter.

Siddîqs have the highest level of wara’. However, what people below that level assume to have is downright distrust. Such people will not eat anything from the hands of fâsiq people. That should not be the case. People that must be bewared from in this respect are not fâsiq people; they are cruel people. A cruel person is one who battens upon others’ rights. What he eats is harâm. But why should a fornicator’s earnings be harâm while fornication is not a means whereby he earns his living. It is wara’ to avoid harâms. Yet it is not wara’ to have misgivings as to the cleanness of the clothes you have laundered or as to the cleanness of the water you have been using. Siddîqs did not harbour such misgivings. They would make ablution with any water they found. Misgiving had about the clothes one wears or about the water one uses bears towards  ostentation, which in turn is something that the human nafs [1] relishes. The wara’ that siddîqs have is purity of heart. It is this that people cannot see, and it is for this reason that the nafs  loathes  it.