Page 24 - The Solution To Secret Sorrows

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Since the beginning of this book, we have stated that though
some people say that they accept the faith, insincerity is the reason
why many cannot experience true tranquility and happiness. As
Allah tells us in the verse, "They vacillate between the two—not
joining these or joining those. If Allah misguides someone, you
will not find any way for him to go" (Surat an-Nisa': 143), these
people know everything in their consciences, but deviate between
ignorant morality and the morality of the Qur'an. Even though they
believe, demonstrating this moral indecision causes such people to
live in secret suffering.
Few are aware that the troubles and sorrows they experience is
the recompense for the insincerity they conceal inside themselves.
They believe that these are "facts of life"—that is, a part of life that al-
most everybody is apt to experience. However, none of the behavior
which turns to sorrow for them is an inescapable fact of life.
People of this type suffer sorrow and torment either because
they have set their faces against the religious morality that will pro-
tect them from darkness, as Allah tells us in the verse, "Alif Lam Ra.
This is a Book We have sent down to you so that you can bring
mankind from the darkness to the light, by the permission of their
Lord, to the Path of the Almighty, the Praiseworthy" (Surah
Ibrahim: 1), or because they do not live the way that religious moral-
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