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anything and without forgetting that he is subject to Allah's mercy
and compassion.
As we can see in these and all other cases, Allah helps those who
are patient. One verse expresses this assistance, as follows:

And be steadfast. Allah is with the steadfast. (Surat al-Anfal, 46)

When facing injustice
Those who do not follow the Qur'an's morality cannot exercise
true justice, because they do not consider that they will have to
account for all of their actions in the afterlife, and so feel no need to be

scrupulous in this matter. Since they follow their earthly desires
rather than their consciences, they make impulsive, instead of
rational, decisions. When they become angry, they immediately
succumb to their anger and seek revenge. When a situation threatens
their advantages, they do not hesitate to behave unjustly to protect
their own interests. Such acts fill the newspapers and the television
newscasts. Someone attacks his boss when he is fired, slanders
somebody who has interfered with her business, spreads malicious
gossip about his fiancée who broke up with him, or responds to a
person who threatens her with even worse threats. We meet such
people all the time. They respond to a bad act or an injustice in the
same manner and violate the morality called for by the Qur'an.
Indeed, sometimes people may even try to kill those who have
interfered with their interests.
The faithful may be subjected to the unjust behavior of such

people as part of their lifelong test. Unlike those given as examples
above, they do not respond to injustice with injustice or to
wrongdoing with more wrongdoing. But this does not mean that they
stand by idly and do nothing to fight such injustice. However, rather