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The Life of this World According to the Idea of Karma

And (the believers) are constant in their prayers. (Surat al-Ma’arij:
23)
To sum up, the only way for us to achieve a real superiority of
moral character and to avoid compromise, even where it seems to con-
flict with our interests, is to have strong love for Allah and strong de-

votion to Him, to fear Him and to serve Him as His servants. The idea
of karma does advise people to adopt certain good qualities. However,
although everyone may have good qualities of their own, they are lim-
ited in number, are not permanent and depend on certain conditions.

In order for them to be permanent, we must in all circumstances have
faith in Allah and do everything that we do only in order to obtain His
grace; we must know Him, acknowledge Him and fear Him.

Every believer knows that the beauty of this world is only passing. He never forgets that those
who lived in great splendour hundreds of years ago all had to depart from this world, leaving
behind them merely the faint ruins of that magnificence. Believers therefore spend their time in
this world behaving in a manner that will be pleasing to Allah.

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