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meaning that was not intended, seeing in it a meaning intended
against them. They are easily demoralised and offended. At the least
provocation, their eyes well-up with tears, and they may even weep
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secretly.
In men, a sentimental nature may, with the passing of time, reach
further degrees of deviance: it may cause serious mental health
problems, effeminate behaviour, sexual impropriety and may give rise
to homosexual tendencies. An emotional person may hide the
perverse tendencies of his hidden self, or he may boldly proclaim
them, depending on his environment. At any moment, he may burst
forth with his suppressed tendencies, thus exposing his hidden
passions, lack of restraint and moral judgement. For example, these
days, we are accustomed to emotional, melancholic, introverted
people, coming out in public as aggressive homosexuals or
transvestites. In the Qu'ran, God draws attention to the shamefulness
of this sexual deviation in the words Lot said to his people:
And Lot, when he said to his people, "Do you commit an obscenity
not perpetrated before you by anyone in all the worlds? You come
with lust to men instead of women. You are indeed a depraved
people." (Qur'an, 7:80-81)
Surely, such scandalous type of behaviour is due to the fact that
people have departed from the way of God and, being slaves to their

Sometimes, under the
influence of
sentimentalism,
introverted, timid and
depressed people throw
aside all moral values
and zealously adopt a
perverted way of life,
exceeding the bounds of
propriety. The
homosexual march in the
picture at the side is an
example of this type of
flagrant immorality.