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92 SOLUTION THE VALUES OF THE QUR'AN

People are Encouraged to go into Immorality
Today, under the guise of "modernism","liberation", “courage” or
“freedom”, people, especially teenagers, are conditioned towards
immorality. Concepts strictly avoided a few decades ago are readily
internalized by many societies today. All forms of vice are displayed on
TV, in the tabloids and magazines. Forgers, homosexuals, those who sell
their bodies, parents pushing their daughters to prostitution, gamblers,
the so-called celebrities with deplorable manners are presented to public
as role-models. Even if they are sometimes genuinely abhorred, they
become people whose life-style is emulated by the masses. Meanwhile,
the dissolute lives they live are offered as a defining value of so-called
“courage”, "modernism" or "civilization".
In recent years, widespread effeminate behavior, style and clothing
among men typifies one consequence of this indoctrination. That some
people in the society tend to such attitudes is of course a token of their
imprudence. Similarly, some renowned people in the public eye promote
extramarital relations and drug use. The ignorant masses imitate attitudes
associated with these people – from behaviors to philosophies, clothing
styles to use of language. They hardly realize that these people – the
objects of adulation to millions – are simply shallow people battling

serious psychological, sexual and spiritual problems and are therefore
constantly humiliated by their close associates who are aware of their real
inner worlds. Yet, many people who live far removed from Qur’anic
moral values fail to comprehend this. Allah draws attention to the fact
that those having no faith are devoid of wisdom in many of His verses. In
one verse, Allah reveals as such:
Anything you have been given is only the enjoyment of the life of this
world and its finery. What is with Allah is better and longer lasting. So will
you not use your intellect? (Surat al-Qasas: 60)
However, thoughtful, wise, conscientious, intelligent people with
strong fear of Allah have to be the ones forming the moral framework of
society. They would nurture a healthier social model, pushing all vices
out of society. Rather than trifling matters, teenagers could be far more