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CHARACTER-TYPES OF THE UNBELIEVERS
overly attached to this world.
Of course, there are degrees of these features found in one per-
son or another, and the defective morality that we are about to dis-
cuss may be evidenced only partly by some individuals and more

entirely by others. Essentially, what is important for our topic is the
moral degeneracy caused by being distant to the morality of the
Qur’an.
Once a woman in an ignorant society will have married off her
children, and acquired grandchildren, she will take on the character
of an old woman. Also, when men retire or become too old to work,
they will tend to stay at home. Even those men who feel physically

and spiritually fit are influenced by the rest of the society to think
that they must behave as older men do. Their wives have grown old,
as have all their friends. Acquaintances have retired and behave as
old men. Their children are married, and then grow farther and far-
ther apart from their parents, because they have to deal with their
own problems.
Such individuals often pass their days watching television or
napping. For a housewife, of course, such behavior is merely a con-
tinuation of much of what she had been used to. Their grumbling

and irrationality increase steadily. Although both husband and wife
live together under the same conditions, the responsibilities for
looking after the house still fall to the woman, which makes her be-
havior even more contrary. Because the men now have nothing to
do, they become bored sitting in the house all day with nothing to
occupy themselves.
They do the same things every day, their lives becoming dread-

fully monotonous. They hope for their children to break this monot-

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