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Conclusion: How to Escape the Disease of Romanticism

entimentality is one of the most common character flaws of
those who have adopted a way of life and morality contrary to
S religion. It is not, however, as has typically been thought, a trait
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of character that one is born with and cannot change.
This spiritual condition is one that a person has either adopted
consciously or unconsciously. Those who claim that introversion,
weepiness, melancholy and irascibility, cannot be controlled by the
will, will find, upon sincere reflection, that their contention is
untenable. For example, if a melancholy person is offered a large sum
of money, or something else of considerable value, he might
immediately become overjoyed, this being clear evidence to the fact
that if someone wishes, he can very easily abandon his despairing
attitude. So, it is clear that sentimental attitude adopted by a person
merely represents a lack of consideration for those around him, and is
a typical example to a person's wronging himself, as the Qu'ran says:
God does not wrong people in any way; rather it is people who
wrong themselves. (Qur'an, 10:44)
However, sentimental people cannot grasp this reality, because
they are continually in a melancholic and despairing state of mind. No
matter what happens, they will always find a reason to feel sad and
anxious. Actually, these people wrong themselves. This fact is revealed
in the Qur'an as follows:

When We give people a taste of mercy, they rejoice in it, but when
something bad happens to them because of what they themselves
have done, they immediately lose all hope. (Quran, 30:36)
For this kind of person to escape the romantic state of mind, and
to be cured of this disease, he must be on his guard, with full state of
awareness, of the false promises of Satan and of his deceptions. And
only a person's faith can make this possible.
A true believer will find the weakness of romanticism
unbecoming for himself. He will behave rationally, bring solutions to
problems, and make himself an example to those around him.