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

their faith, and they said: "Allah is enough for us and the Best of
Guardians." (Surah Al 'Imran: 173)

[Their messengers said:] "And why should we not put our trust
in Allah, when He has guided us to our ways? We will be stead-
fast however much you harm us. Those who trust put their trust
in Allah." (Surah Ibrahim: 12)
Say: "Nothing can happen to us except what Allah has ordained
for us. He is Our Master. It is in Allah that the believers should
put their trust." (Surat at-Tawba: 51)

These traps and assaults, which always end favorably for believ-
ers, reveal those people who have a sickness in their heart, who work
against believers, and who refuse to sacrifice for His sake. In the
Qur’an Allah describes the attitudes of those who lose their zeal to
spread the message in times of difficulty and who even rejoice in their
lack of eagerness:
Among you there are people who hang back and if you en-
counter a setback then they say, "Allah has blessed me in that I
was not there with them." (Surat an-Nisa': 72)

However, being slow and lazy in proclaiming the Qur'an's moral-
ity, avoiding self-sacrifice and putting the responsibility on others is
not the proper way to behave. Those who ignore their conscience and
abandon the truth, even though they understand it in their mind and
conscience, must not think that they have gained anything. Those who
are slow and among the last to live the kind of moral life pleasing to
Allah will find themselves held accountable for such serious errors.
Those who remain passive in this world in order to preserve their own
comfort and protect their own interests will, in the Hereafter, suffer
misery beyond their most vivid imaginations. Their ensuing pangs of

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