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ARE YOU AWARE
YOU ARE LIVING IN A FALSE WORLD?

repent to Him. My Lord is close and quick to respond."
(Surah Hud, 61)
Our Lord also reveals, in another verse, that He will re s-
pond immediately to any prayer:

If My servants ask you about Me, I am near. I answer the
call of the caller when he calls on Me. They should the -
refore respond to Me and believe in Me so that hope-
fully they will be rightly guided. (Surat al-Baqara, 186)

UNBELIEVERS: THEY WEARY THEMSEL V E S
AND LABOR IN VAIN

Nearly all people try to succeed in something in the life of
this world. No matter how diff e rent the areas they intere s t
themselves in may be, human beings all have one common
aim: to be recompensed for their efforts and labors. Those
who ignore the Hereafter believe that being rewarded for the-
ir labor in this world is worth all the problems involved.
H o w e v e r, the fact is that these people are ignoring one
very important factor: the approval of Allah. What actually
makes an action and its outcome valuable is Allah's approval
of that individual and the action partaken in. Any effort ex-

pended or success achieved in an activity undertaken witho-
ut aiming at His approval is only temporary, just like the life
of this world. For that reason, Allah has described the efforts
expended by unbelievers and such things as they do as "mi-
r a g e . " When these people proceed to the Afterlife they will
see—unless Allah in His Mercy wishes otherwise—that all

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