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40 THOSE WHO DO NOT HEED THE QUR'AN

In order to achieve this ultimate aim, Satan prepares very special
situations to sink people into a state of heedlessness. For this pur-
pose, he makes plans using people's weaker aspects, and attempts
to make evil deeds attractive to people's egos. Unlike the faithful,
people distanced from religious morality can end up in a state of
spiritual heedlessness by forgetting Allah and not thinking about
their purpose in life.
For example, Satan can easily waylay people in places of enter-
tainment, because such places are conducive to wasting time and
not thinking about anything. In these places what assumes the most
importance are the clothes and accessories people wear, the money
they spend, and the people around them. With the music so loud
that people cannot hear one another, the air so full of smoke they
cannot see one another, exploding flashbulbs, loud conversation
and yelling, an environment is formed in which people who have
no fear of Allah certainly cannot concentrate their attention or
think.
Of course it is a great blessing for people to enjoy themselves and

come together with others they enjoy talking to. But these days
places of entertainment are not those where the name of Allah is
mentioned and where people recall their purpose in life. The pur-
pose of creation is entirely forgotten. People who feel no fear of
Allah in their hearts and spend their time in such places experience
an atmosphere of heedlessness and are left in no condition to con-
sider or understand warnings. In fact, one of the reasons why such
people prefer these places is to forget everything and avoid thought,
and they often say so. While a person who comes to such a place to,
as he expresses it, escape from the troubles of the world, may have
been behaving sensibly ten minutes earlier, now he starts to regard
any excess as normal. In the name of enjoying themselves, these