Page 123 - The Debased Culture of Superficiality

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar 121

to do with curiosity. This is Muslim way of behavior proper
to those who believe in Allah.
As explained above in detail, the kind of questioning
designed to fulfill a person’s egotistical desires and put his
curiosity to rest is totally different from the Muslim under-
standing. It is an activity that comes from superficiality and
is proper to those individuals who have lost, to a certain
degree, the sensitivity that faith imparts.

They are Overly Refined

Those whose way of thinking is not superficial behave
with natural grace. Such people feel no need to use artificial-
ity in their conversations, actions or expressions. For superfi-
cial people, however, acting in an overly refined manner
comes at the head of their list of artificial tactics. By “overly
refined,” we do not mean being mannerly, considerate or
polite; but the attempt of shallow characters to present them-
selves as other than they are, to make others like them. Being
overly refined is a tactic a person uses to conceal his real per-
sonality, shallow behavior and way of life from others.
This individual knows that he is shallow, and that among
some people around him he can live fearlessly in this shal-
lowness. He knows he needn’t act in a refined way among
those with whom he shares this low culture; he can even act
in quite vulgarly with them. But he feels an intense need to act
in a refined manner with those who are not like him, in whose
eyes he fears to be humiliated if they detect his shallowness.
Attempts to act refined is a tactic that exalts human beings
more than necessary. It is seen in people with weak person-