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ROMANTICISM: A WEAPON OF SATAN
may jump off a bridge, hand in hand,
in order to "immortalise" their love, or
so that "their souls may be together for
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eternity," or for some such other
irrational motive. However, in
committing such an act, they are not
aware that they are actually throwing
themselves directly into the jaws of
hell. In committing such a forbidden
act, without seeing the error in it, they
believe that they will be reunited not
with God but with each other after
their death. This they will realise
when they see the Angel of Death, at
their final moment, but it will be too
late. We can read in the newspapers of Depression often occurs among
young people when they sense
the deeply-saddened letters left
that the person he or she is with
behind by people who have is no longer interested in them.
committed suicide because of
unrequited love. These are clear examples of how romanticism can
completely shut up a person's mind and conscience.
However, when the blindfold is removed, and a person sees that
the promise of eternal torment is real, he will finally try to save himself
by offering as ransom that partner to whom he had blindly devoted
himself, and turned into a god under the influence of romanticism.
What these people will ultimately do is described in a verse of the
Qur'an as follows:
Even though they can see each other. An evildoer will wish he
could ransom himself from the punishment of that Day, by means
of his sons, or his wife or his brother or his family who sheltered
him or everyone else on earth, if that only meant that he could save
himself. (Qur'an, 70:11-14)
The same situation is described in another verse:
