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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)