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PASSIVITY IN RELIGION

They Are Open to Negative Suggestions
and Insinuations

Those who shrink from practicing the morality of religion are
of weak faith and, as a result, are open to suggestions from those
who do not believe. If they are presented with a perverted sug-
gestion, and told that religion is not necessary, and that it is
enough to live a life that conforms to values of this world, they to-
tally agree. If someone comes to them and says, "I don't believe in
Allah; I don't believe any more that religion and worship are im-
portant; I am going to live as an atheist," it will influence them.
When faced with such suggestions, their resolve is broken, and
they easily follow those who are not religious. It would be naïve
to think that this kind of individual is a Muslim, just because he
says he performs his prayers and certain acts of worship; rather,
he appreciates such temptations towards secularism.
Out of his devotion to tradition, an individual may hesitate to
completely abandon the religion. For this reason, he may not ac-
cept the invitation of someone who calls him to live his life with-
out regard for the moral teachings of the Qur'an. But, if he
abandons what he had performed as custom, and is presented
with the practices of ignorance, he approves of it. He feels an in-
tense desire to live a worldly life, and, even if he does not openly
declare that he has no faith in Allah, religion or the Qur'an, he
looks positively on the morality of those who live the kind of life
ignorant of religion, and accepts their disgraceful behavior and
superstitions. He is not disturbed when people around him deny
the afterlife, because of their attachment to this world. Or, when
he sees that they prefer to live empty lives, without purpose, and
devoid of charity; he is not disturbed by their greedy accumula-
tion of worldly possessions, the disgraceful things they do to earn

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