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Nevertheless, people who do not live by the morality of
religion are not interested in enriching their souls. They never
feel the urge to adopt good attitudes towards the people sur-
rounding them, since they see them merely as beings who have
evolved from apes and who are destined to disappear one day.
Their main aim in life is to satisfy the desires of their unregen-
erate selfish and animal-like instincts. Selfish pursuits, howev-
er, do not improve the human soul, but rather blunt it. Such
people can provide no genuine contribution to art. Moreover, it
is unlikely that they take any pleasure in real aesthetics and art

or appreciate them. In a country where the public do not enjoy
and appreciate art, artists inevitably lose true artistic motiva-
tion. Money and self-promotion become the basic encouraging
factors. They fail to produce real art.
To conclude, when people sincerely adhere to the values
of religion described in the Qur'an, the present life turns into a
sort of Paradise. The social harmony people have longed for
and strived to attain throughout the ages-which they viewed as
utopia, an impossible dream-becomes real in a very short time.

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