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TRUE WISDOM DESCRIBED IN THE QUR'AN

the ability to reason has been lost as a result of not obeying
Allah’s commands.
The destruction that lies behind the suicides, drug abuse, as-
sault, or murders that occupy a large portion of the global news
media is caused by romanticism and by being over-emotional.
People become so apt to ignore the path of reason that they can
easily destroy their own or others’ lives or property. All the rea-
sons they give to justify themselves have emotional factors at
the root. For example, there are people who become upset at a
harmless joke and kill as a result. Or, there are students who
cannot get into a university, even though they have studied for
months, and who try to commit suicide. Such people as cannot
break away from their ambitions and who are so averse to rea-
sonable conduct that they cannot even see other opportunities
ahead of them, can make such irrational decisions under the in-
fluence of their emotions and then act upon these decisions.
Every step one takes under the influence of romanticism and
with no reason being brought to bear will bring about an ab-
solute loss. That is because romanticism is a belief of ignorant
people that distances them from religion, and in turn from the
real meaning of life. This way of life, which leads the individual
into a life of hardship, is completely opposite to the way of
thinking and morals laid down in the Qur’an by Allah.