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Romanticism: Miscellanea

power. Because they do not use their wisdom, they cannot see that
God created that which they falsely venerate, and all that they
accomplish by Him, and that without His power and command they
would have no power or ability to do anything. 89
This misplaced gratitude is only later a cause of shame for
sentimental people. Their grovelling to their bosses, a family elder or
a rich relative leads them to become depressed, a feeling which is then
reflected in the way they speak and how they act. This kind of
behaviour is one of the numerous forms of anxieties that romanticism
engenders, and is unbecoming for a believer.

Introversion
In some people, sentimentality takes the form of introversion, or
the inability to communicate with others. In this kind of
sentimentality, a person lives in his own world, immerses himself in
his own problems; he has no interest in what goes on around him, and,
therefore, is incapable of taking action. Because he does not have the
strength of character commended
in the Qu'ran, he is not possessed
God is the Protector of
of the ability to deal with external
those who believe. He
realities. He does not attempt to
brings them out of the
solve problems that confront him,
darkness into the
feeling only weak, helpless and
light. But those who
useless. Because he has not put
disbelieve have false
himself in the hands of God, and
does not trust in His unfailing gods as protectors.
help, he feels that he is all alone in They take them from
the world and without recourse. the light into the
For that reason, he is afraid to darkness. Those are
come out of the dream-world he the Companions of the
has created within himself. Fire remaining in it
This melancholy caused by timelessly, for ever.
sentimentality can lead this type of (Qur'an, 2:257)
person into depression. The