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ROMANTICISM: A WEAPON OF SATAN

do to help, but will seek to be consoled himself as if he were the one in
need of support.
Or, someone near him suddenly becomes ill; instead of
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performing first aid and calling an ambulance, he will start running
around creating panic with his foolishness. If someone asked him
what was happening, he would not be able to because his
emotionalism prevents him from using his mind, and detaches him
from other people.
Or, he himself suffers some illness; he knows there is something
wrong, but if he goes to the doctor he is afraid it will turn out to be
serious. He does not want to be unhappy, so he is not interested in
getting a final diagnosis. By not getting the treatment he could have
got if he had acted wisely, he loses the opportunity to be cured of his
illness.
We could multiply the examples of this kind of unwise emotional
behaviour to demonstrate how such irrationality leads to terribly
detrimental results, and which can at times be a matter of life and
death. These individuals are so disturbed, through the influence of
Satan, by the things they see
happening around them that
beome debilitated, such that they
He (Satan) has no themselves come to need help
authority over those and reassurance. However, if
who believe and put they had used their wisdom and
their trust in their taken appropriate decisions in
Lord. He only has relation to the events they had
authority over those experienced, they could have
who take him as a found solutions to their
friend and associate problems.
others with God. As we can see, emotional
(Qur'an, 16:99-100) individuals are not people who
can use their minds to produce
solutions to problems; they