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ROMANTICISM: A WEAPON OF SATAN

to the age where he is able to fast; they do not permit him to, because
they think he will not be able to withstand the hunger, and a second
example is one who cannot bring himself to wake up a family member
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and invite him to morning prayer. Such people actually have a satanic
understanding of compassion.
The believer measures the compassion he exercises in terms of the
good it will bring another in the afterlife. Sometimes, the love and
compassion he feels towards another believer will require him to be
critical or correct that person for their own good. He may criticise
someone whose behaviour he finds objectionable, he may try to
dissuade him from following a certain course, or he may forbid the
wrong as it is commanded in the Qu'ran. This is true compassion.
When a believer speaks in this way, he is attempting to say something
that the other person will seriously take to heart, and to prevent him
from pursuing any action that is contrary to the Qu'ran. He does not
want to see him risk falling into the torments of Hell in the afterlife,
from which there will be no return. For this reason, he will encourage
him to live the kind of moral life that is most pleasing to God; this way,
he prepares him for Paradise and, in so doing, will actually be acting
out of the greatest possible kind of compassion. It must not be
forgotten that true lack of pity is to passively observe the wrongs
another has done without regard for what awaits him in the afterlife.
Satanic compassion goes hand in hand with injustice. A wise
believer makes his decisions in every situation with a view to justice
and to the will of God, whereas a person who makes his decisions on
the basis of these satanic feelings of sorrow and compassion is quite
liable to act unjustly. He will act in the direction dictated by his lower
self, his feelings, desires and passions. When he witnesses an event, he
will act out of his feelings of pity without knowing who is right and
who is wrong, without making a just and wise assessment and, most
importantly, without giving any regard to the commands of the
Qu'ran. He will act out of his feelings of pity. Generally he will involve
himself and others in harmful enterprises by his faulty decisions and