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CHARACTER-TYPES OF THE UNBELIEVERS
without consideration to it. Indeed, they look only to the life of this
world to fulfill their aims and wishes, seeking fulfillment in mun-
dane affairs. Due to the attachment they feel for this world, they
would hope it to never end. In the Qur’an Allah tells us that they do

not want to believe that death is real, and therefore, the Afterlife
never enters their minds:
No indeed! We have given these people enjoyment, as We
did their fathers, until life seemed long and good to them...
(Surat al- Anbiya’, 44)
Belief in the Afterlife would not allow them to be excessively
attached to this world.

In the Qur’an, Allah tells us that this life is a distraction, and
that the real life is in the next world:
The life of this world is nothing but a game and a diver-
sion. The abode of the Hereafter—that is truly Life if they
only knew. (Surat al-‘Ankabut, 64)
In spite of this, they avoid giving careful consideration to this.
They fail to realize that they have nothing to lose, but everything to
gain, if they believe in the Afterlife. If they believed, they could gain
not only the blessings of this world, which they would enjoy in the

best possible way, but they could also hope to gain Allah’s good
pleasure and an eternal life in Paradise. And, in the life in Paradise,
they will live an eternal life in which concepts like boredom, weari-
some and monotony are not created. In this life they will be sur-
rounded by unlimited good, an endless variety of blessings and,
most importantly, that life will be eternal. That is, a person who de-
sires the Afterlife will gain the benefits of this world and of the

world to come. But those who are satisfied only with this world will

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