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ROMANTICISM: A WEAPON OF SATAN

How Does Sentimentality Obscure Wisdom?
Everyone was created with feelings like love, compassion, mercy
and fear. To possess these feelings is to be human. What we want to
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emphasise here is that, in order for a person to have a healthy and
balanced spiritual life, it is necessary for him to keep his emotions
under control, and direct them according to his faith and wisdom. For
example, love has been given to humanity so that it may be shown
foremost towards God, who created us from nothing, who provides
for us, gives us every blessing, and who promised us an eternal life
filled with happiness. Also, love is an emotion that must be directed
towards those who love God and whom God loves, that is, to
believers. A person is loved for his closeness to God, his fear of God,
and his care to protect His prerogatives. All these forms of love are
directed toward God, and toward those objects in which His attributes
are manifested. In fact, for a believer to feel love for the enemies of
God and His religion is forbidden in the Qu'ran.
As well, God has commanded His believers to fear nothing or no
one other than Him, because every thing and every person is within
His sovereignty. Apart from God, there is no strength or power;
therefore, there is no other being
worthy to be feared than Him.
Those who give in We will take the feeling of rage as
times of both ease our next example. Rage is an emotion
that awakens a believer's responsibility
and hardship,
towards his fellow man, and leads him
those who control
to take action against injustice, against
their rage and
the enemies of God and religion, and
pardon other
against oppression. However, when a
people-God loves
believer acts on his sense of
the good-doers
responsibility, it is with intelligence,
(Qur'an, 3:134)
moderation and a good moral sense. A
believer never acts unjustly or
mercilessly, nor out of vengeance, or, as