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            pens, they seek to defend their pride. They offer several
            excuses to show that anyone would do the same thing in the
            same circumstances. However, a person’s failure to accept
            his faults is one of the greatest obstacles to his personal
            development and attaining a good moral character.
               Someone who does not trust Allah is afraid to acknowl-
            edge his mistakes. He remains bemired in apprehension,
            thinking, “If I make a mistake in such a simple matter, what
            will people think of me when it comes to important ones?”
            It doesn’t cross his mind to leave everything to Allah’s will,
            to take refuge in Him, to trust and rely on Him. If he thought
            about this, he would know that Allah knows everything,
            would be content, and would feel no need to offer explana-
            tions to anyone.
               The alibis offered in this debased culture, which makes
            people forget Allah and give preference to human ideas, are
            not limited to mistakes and instances of thoughtlessness.
            People in this culture always feel the need to give alibis
            about reasonable, legitimate actions that ordinary people do
            in the course of a day. Similar apprehensions lie at the root
            of this too.
               Because their spirit and personality are not mature, they
            are squeezed into their little world. They cannot be happy
            and content themselves, and cannot allow others to be so.
            They have abandoned the morality of the Islamic religion
            that Allah has been pleased to choose for mankind. Such
            anxiety and apprehension is the reward they receive in this
            world for their choosing to live in the miserable system of
            superficiality.
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