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EXEMPLARY VALUES OF BELIEVERS REFLECTING THEIR MERCY

or "burying them alive"—all practices peculiar to pre-
Islamic societies, are not common in our day. Yet, in mod-
ern societies, a different form of this crime is committed:
abandoning children on the streets for fear of poverty.
Believers take refuge in Allah from committing such a
crime and feel a deep fear of the grievous end of those
who commit such a crime. Indeed, the compassion im-
bued in them by Qur'anic morality forbids them to per-
petrate such cruelty upon another human being—let
alone upon a small child, simply out of concern for their
future. If they are really in a difficult situation due to
poverty, they try to eliminate this problem by developing
viable solutions within the limits of the Qur'an.