Page 25 - The Courage of the Faithful

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN

COURAGE ACCORDING TO THE

QUR'AN AND COURAGE ACCORDING
TO SOCIETY

L ike many false notions, courage is one of those concepts

which is perceived and experienced diff e rently fro m
that in the Qur'an in a society that does not adhere to re-
ligious morality. Of course, people may be able to propound many
d i ff e rent things on the subject of courage, but as in all matters, the
best definition we are given is the one in the Qur'an.

Everybody has moments of courage but the matters concerning
which people are brave, the purposes for which they achieve
courage and the limits of the courage they demonstrate may be very
different from those described in the Qur'an.
If a definition of courage is required, the definition of one who
does not know the morality of the Qur'an, and the kind of courage
Allah recommends, will certainly be different from the definition of

a Muslim. While a Muslim determines what is courage according to
the Qur'an, a great many will describe some hero-figure constructed
from their imagination through the influence of the action films. For
instance, they would describe driving in the wrong direction on an

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