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unbelievers’ lives. So, whatever blessings people may
have cannot give them a sense of real security and con-
tentment. This, in fact, is Allah’s mercy toward His ser-
vants, for by this means they can understand that only
believers who submit themselves to Allah can find true
happiness and contentment, and thus submit themselves
to Him.
By understanding the dangers of unbelief and the beau-
ty of faith, those who can see the wisdom in Allah’s crea-
tion will be delivered from deprivation in this life as well as
from the unimaginable misery that they would have had in
the life to come. Therefore, readers must understand what
is meant by “the spiritual and material blessings that the
unbelievers consume in this life.” This will be examined in
the following chapters. People who read the introduction
and look at the chapter titles may think that this book is not
meant for them for various reasons: They may think that
they can take pleasure in life, other people, nature, and this
world’s beautiful things, or that they are somehow immune
to the anxiety and depression described herein. However,
we would like to remind such people that even a cursory
consideration of this matter could be of benefit to them. If
you carefully consider these pages, you will see that in
what they relate, there is a lesson for everyone to learn.
Some people may become inured to their situation over
time and think of it as normal, not realizing that they may
be leading a life bereft of many pleasures and beautiful
blessings that Allah has created for them. The reason why
most people have never enjoyed these blessings is

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