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102 THE DEBASED CULTURE OF SUPERFICIALITY

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Hijr: 88). Because they love other Muslims and honor them
for the sake of their faith and morality, they act with consid-
eration and avoid doing anything that their friends would
not like or that would make them uncomfortable. In the
Qur’an, Allah tells Muslims that this bond among them goes
beyond friendship:
The believers are brothers . . . (Surat al-Hujurat: 10)
In another verse, Allah reminds us that this friendship
among Muslims is a blessing from Him:
. . . Remember Allah’s blessing to you when you were
enemies and He joined your hearts together so that you
became brothers by His blessing . . . (Surah Al ‘Imran:
103)
This strong bond among Muslims is a blessing given by
Allah as a reward for their faith. It is not possible for anyone
to have this friendship and intimacy if they do not practice
the moral precepts of the Qur’an. Allah reveals this truth in
the Qur’an:
And [it is He Who] unified their hearts. Even if you had
spent everything on the Earth, you could not have uni-
fied their hearts. But Allah has unified them . . . (Surat
al-Anfal: 63)
They Take no Pleasure in Goodness or Beauty
Those who believe in Allah and in the life to come know
that He is the reason for the existence of everything they see
around them. Someone with this knowledge looks around