Page 12 - Loyalty Described in the Qur'an

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M any live lives far removed from the moral teach-
ings expounded in the Qur’an; though they had
M been shown the right way, they turn their faces
away. However, such heedlessness will prevent them from attaining
that superior moral character called for by Allah in the Qur’an,
harming them both materially and spiritually. Anxiety, pessimism,
selfishness, belligerence, hypocrisy, arrogance, greed, and other
such vices now prevailing in modern societies, are the result of this
distance from the true religion and the morality it commands.

However, some are not even aware that they are in such a con-
dition, having become so habituated to such vices that they no
longer regard them as negative. The reason for them finding them-
selves in this condition is that they have turned their backs to the
true religion of Allah. He refers to this human failing in the Qur’an:
The Messenger says, "My Lord, my people treat this Qur’an
as something to be ignored." (Surat al-Furqan, 30)

The notion of "loyalty", which we are aiming to address in this
book, is one that those distanced from the moral teaching of the
Qur’an completely fail to understand; or worse still, will never un-
derstand. As in all matters, a great difference exists between the way
believers understand the meaning of loyalty and how non-believers

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