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Romanticism: Miscellanea




            strengthened by faith, wisdom
            and their commitment to the
                                                    When the affair is
            Qu'ran; they are strong, sound,
                                                 decided Satan will say,
            balanced and perceptive.                                                  95
                                                    "God made you a
                 One of the most common          promise, a promise of
            forms of sentimentality in          truth, and I made you a
            society today is the notion of       promise but broke my
            romantic love. This sentiment           promise. I had no
            is experienced differently by          authority over you,
            different people, and is found      except that I called you
            from family relations, to            and you responded to
            relations of friendship and          me. Do not, therefore,
            camaraderie; but it is most           blame me but blame
            usually     found    in    the        yourselves. I cannot
            relationship between a man            come to your aid nor
            and a woman.                          you to mine. I reject
                 Because the idea of            the way you associated
            romantic love is perhaps the         me with God before."...
            most widespread and perverse             (Qur'an, 14:22)
            kind of sentimentality, we will
            treat it in a separate section.
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