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The Great Truth of Which

the Unbelievers Are Unaware

One of the major influences driving the unbelievers to mock re-
ligious morality and the believers is their evaluation of everything
in terms of worldly criteria, due to their belief that their whole lives
are confined to the world. Therefore, they feel a great attachment to
worldly ambition. In the Qur'an Allah tells us the following about
this spiritual state of such people:
The ruling circle of his people – those who disbelieved and
denied the encounter of the hereafter and whom We had
given opulence in the world – said, "This is nothing but a
human being like yourselves, who eats what you eat and
drinks what you drink. If you were to obey a human being
like yourselves, you would, in that case, definitely be the
losers. Does he promise you that when you have died and
become dust and bones you will be brought forth again?
What you have been promised is sheer nonsense! What is
there but our life in this world? We die and we live, and we
will not be raised again." (Surat al-Mu'minun, 33-37)
This ambition traps unbelievers in a lack of understanding of
the life of this world. They regard whatever they see around them as
having nothing to do with Allah [surely Allah is beyond that!] and