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94 SOLUTION THE VALUES OF THE QUR'AN

Praising those striving for excellent character in society
and presenting the virtues a good character brings to the
human spirit while expressing dislike for moral failings
will surely stop people tending to immorality.

A Token of the Lack of Willpower
Peculiar to Disbelievers: Drugs
Drug use has had an alarming
increase, especially during the last
decade. That the majority of teenagers
use drugs is a fact confirmed by surveys.
Similarly, the number of addicts around the world is in
no way negligible. A survey conducted in 1992 concluded that 50% of the
teenage population of Britain were drug users. Addicts constituted 30% of
British teenagers. Another survey indicates that, between the years 1988
and 1995, Americans spent $57.3 billion on drugs. 13
All drugs are detrimental to human health. A drug user ultimately
ends up in society's dark corners. He needs substantial sums of money for
drugs, yet, paradoxically, drugs physically hinder him from working. At
this stage, the addict starts to make his or her living outside the law,
stealing, cheating, engaging in heterosexual or homosexual prostitution,
etc. Ultimately, the urgency of obtaining money, and the failure to
become involved in any decent work reinforce each other in a self-
perpetuating spiral.
That a person from his own free will
would drift into such an ignoble life is
inconceivable. A wise and conscientious
person never falls into such a situation.
Yet, the lack of willpower, which is purely
a consequence of disbelief, may cause one
even more harm, as stated in the verse:

Each day, the number of drug users soars.