Page 17 - Self-Sacrifice in the Qur'an's Moral Teachings

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

listens to his/her conscience and fears and respects Allah has a respon-
sibility:
Would that there had been more people with a vestige of good
among the generations of those who came before you, who for-
bade corruption in the land, other than the few among them
whom We saved. Those who did wrong gladly pursued the life
of luxury that they were given and were evildoers. (Surah Hud:
116)

This book will examine the nature of self-sacrifice from all of these
angles. We will see that self-sacrifice is a moral virtue that must domi-
nate a believer's life and that it must be lived in its totality to win
Allah's favor. Basing their life on this strong understanding, believers
strive toward what is good and thus serve as examples of this goodness
both in this life and the Hereafter.
Some people avoid self-sacrifice, preferring this world's transient
benefits to winning Allah's favor. But sooner or later, they will suffer
great loss in both worlds. Thus, this book will stress the importance of
this fact and call upon all believers to follow their conscience and lead
lives of self-sacrifice. As Allah states in the Qur'an:
Say: "My prayer and my rites, my living and my dying, are for
Allah alone, the Lord of all the worlds." (Surat al-An'am: 162)

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