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70     THOSE WHO EXHAUST ALL THEIR PLEASURES IN THIS LIFE


            for Allah tells believers to call people to good and dissuade
            them from evil:

               Those who repent, those who worship, those who
               praise, those who fast, those who bow, those who
               prostrate, those who command the right, those who
               forbid the wrong, and those who preserve the limits of
               Allah: give good news to the believers. (Surat at-
               Tawba: 112)
               Unbelievers believe that they will suffer if they show any
            understanding of honesty. However, this is an important
            source of love for people who live the same honesty and
            sincerity. None of the compliments and attention can cre-
            ate the love, closeness, and trust that sincerity puts in the
            heart. So, they consume the pleasures that these good
            qualities give to the spirit, for their own distorted ideas
            make them find duplicity and false pretense more attract-
            ive. Again, it is they themselves who suffer the most from
            what they believe; and even though they are deceived their
            whole life by those around them, they do not renounce
            their ideas. In the Qur’an, Allah tells us that those who deny
            Him realize that there is no other solution but religious
            morality. But the deniers are determined to live in their own
            distorted system, and in return, they suffer:
               Who hears the signs of Allah recited to him and then
               persists in his arrogance just as if he had never heard
               them. Give him the news of a painful punishment.
               (Surat al-Jathiyya: 8)
               [They were] persisting in immense wrongdoing. (Surat
               al-Waqi‘a: 46)
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