signs, symptoms and cures of the spiritual diseases of the heart
Excessive mirth, which, according to the people of knowledge, is having excessive exuberance.
Excessiveness, an unbridled desire to need and want more.
(From Arabic baṭar): "the inability to bear blessings; bewilderment; dislike of something undeserving of dislike; and reckless extravagance."
Wantonness is a disease to which the world's affluent societies are particularly vulnerable. One sign of these conditions is the ease with which people enter into debt and live contentedly with it.
Images glorifying wantonness are ubiquitous in our times [...]: people in ecstatic postures with exaggerated smiles and gaping mouths, showing off their supreme happiness because they own a particular type of car or smoke a certain brand of cigarettes or guzzle a special brand of beer — alcohol that destroys lives and minds. According to advertising theory, when people are constantly exposed to such images, they not only incline toward the product but desire the culture associated with it. Advertisers sell a lifestyle that glorifies wantonness and subtly dissuades reflection.
To intentionally experience hunger and to reflect seriously on death and the Hereafter.
All those smiling people on (advertising) billboards (see above) and all those who aim their glances toward them will inevitably die someday and stand before their Maker. This is the ultimate destiny of all human beings. It is this realization that is the slayer of wantonness.
"How many cities have We destroyed that exulted in their livelihood? Here are their homes now uninhabited after them except for a few" (QUR'AN, 28:58).
"God does not love those who exult" (QUR'AN, 28:76).