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ROMANTICISM: A WEAPON OF SATAN

passions and desires, follow in the
path of Satan. God issues this
warning to humanity in the Qu'ran:
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... And do not follow in the
footsteps of Satan. He truly is
an outright enemy to you. He
only commands you to do evil
and indecent acts and to say
about God what you do not
know. (Qur'an, 2:168-169)
All the types of emotionalism
that we have enumerated so far, are
present to a certain degree in all People who abandon their reason and
those who have abandoned reason wisdom fall under the tyranny of their
emotions, and are lured into a
in favour of living as slaves to their perverse way of life.
emotions. But it takes on different
forms depending on the situations and the people involved. For
example, an irascible, irritable, unbalanced person, no matter how
hard and gruff he may try to appear, still tries to cover his
semtimentality and weakness with the guise of irascibility. Such a
person may humiliate himself by unexpectedly breaking out in tears
or whining. In short, someone who has no faith, or who does not have
the wisdom proper to a believer, will be possessed of a weakness of
mind and character that is the result of sentimentality. This
sentimentality will manifest itself in various kinds of unbalanced
behaviour, depending on the circumstances, the environment and the
situation.
Sentimentality is not a vice to be found in believers, who have
faith and fear God. Since Satan has no influence over the devout who
believe, he cannot use his weapon of sentimentality against them. In
regards to Satan, God gives this command in Sura 15, verse 42, as
follows: "You have no authority over any of My slaves except for the
misled who follow you." For this reason, believers possess a character