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The Key to Faithfulness: Love and Fear of Allah
instead on a number of humanly-devised values, and is far from ex-
periencing the depth and integrity of that of believers.
Believers and disbelievers are poles apart in their understand-

ing of faithfulness. As Allah says in the Qur'an, "They do not meas-
ure Allah with His true measure. Allah is All-Strong, Almighty,"
(Surat al-Hajj, 74) disbelievers cannot form a bond with Allah, be-
cause they cannot sufficiently understand His power and majesty, or
the mercy He shows towards human beings. All those who fail to
bind themselves to Him in love and faithfulness cannot be truly
faithful towards others, nor can others be faithful to them.
Therefore, in order for there to be a strong sense of faithfulness, there

must be a strong sense of love towards Allah. And so, the only ones
who can feel this strong love towards Allah are believers. In the
Qur'an, Allah tells us about this characteristic of the believers:
… But those who believe have greater love for Allah…
(Surat al-Baqara, 165)
There are many reasons at work to allow believers to possess a
strong sense of faithfulness and submission towards Allah. As Allah
says in the verse, "Say: 'Praise be to Allah. He will show you His

Signs and you will recognize them.' Your Lord is not unaware of
what you do," (Surat an-Naml, 93) believers are those who recog-
nize Allah's help, protection and mercy during the events that occur
in their lives. As Allah explains in the Qur'an, in order to strengthen
their hearts, and increase their love and devotion to Him, He has
promised to show them that everything they experience within
themselves, and in the outside world, is "truth." The above verse in-
forms us that believers behave with the knowledge that everything

that happens to them in the course of their lives occurs in accordance

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