Ignorance
"Truly, We did offer Amanah (trust or moral responsibility or honesty and all the duties which Allah has ordained) to the heavens and the earth, and the mountains, but they declined to bear it and were afraid of it (i.e. afraid of Allah's Torment) and ignorant (of its results)."(Qur'an:Translation of the meaning, 33:72)
Piety and righteousness are the responsibility mankind accepted, whereas the heavens and earth and the mountains could not bear it. Mankind, being ignorant of the outcomes and the Unseen, accepted such responsibility: Though man is weak and helpless he accepted such a great responsibility and made himself responsible and will be reckoned for it before Allah. Whoever becomes pious and carries out such duties as Allah ordered will be rewarded in the Hereafte,r and if one neglects such Divine orders and behaves against the guidance of the revelation, he will be tortured severely as he will thus deserve the wrath of the All Great, the Rabb of the Heavens and earth. Those who fail to be pious and religious prove to be as Allah described them in the above verse; ignorant and unfair to others and themselves.
