The main theme of what Ghazali says about neglect is that the consistency of the world is built on the foundation of neglect. Due to negligence, people are immersed in the work of this world, they are busy in accumulating wealth or gaining status and are oblivious to the affairs of their hereafter. As if they will always last in this world until death removes the veil of neglect from their eyes. Why is the world market so hot? Ghazali has theorized the answer to this question in the concept of neglect, so that the foundation of his anthropology and cosmology is based on this concept.

According to the Gnostics, human souls are banished from the world of light to the darkness of the body and the prison of matter. The soul must try to return to its original abode, the divine court. But what has caused the souls of people in the physical body and the material world to not remember their homeland so much? The Gnosist answer to this question lies in the concept of oblivion. Souls have forgotten their original origin and are busy with physical and material pleasures.