Page 67 - The Debased Culture of Superficiality

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would openly say that he could do everything with His help.
He would not want anyone to feel sorry for him, but to trust
and respect him for his strong character.
The mental horizons of superficial people are limited to
what they can say about the ordinary topics that belong to
their culture. For this reason, they can have intimate discus-
sions with those who share the same culture, but the areas of
discussion they have with those who do not share their cul-
ture are very narrow. Their daily conversations with others
who live in the same shallow world, and even the words they
use, are almost always the same. When they start, their lis-
teners can guess what they are going to talk about and even
what words they’ll use. Because their horizons are limited,
they cannot appreciate the good things that Allah has creat-
ed or the events that occur in the world. Their abilities to find
new subject matters, express their thoughts in a novel way, or
to go beyond the clichés they have learned by rote, are so lim-
ited as to be almost non-existent. And unless someone tells
them about it, they are incapable of understanding or even
noticing their situation. Having departed from sincere faith
and adopted the religion of superficiality, they have little
intelligence, insight, understanding or wisdom.
Even though their abilities to think and to speak are limit-
ed, they think they are very important and intelligent. For
this reason, they use a wording that generally praises them-
selves in any conversation. Unaware of the degrading posi-
tion that their debased culture has put them in, they praise
themselves in conversations, either openly or covertly.
However, Muslims direct their praise only to Allah and say: