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A Call for Unity

religions are told to avoid ungratefulness, transgression, ar-
rogance, rebellion, lies, mockery, selfishness, greed, fraud,
envy, aggression, disobedience, avarice, betrayal, gossip, con-
frontation, tyranny, slander, lack of patience, hypocrisy, and
agitation, for they are incompatible with the morality that He
tells believers to follow. In fact, He clearly tells all believers to
be respectful, loving, just, conscientious, compassionate, mer-
ciful, helpful, modest, honest, trustworthy, generous, grate-

ful, selfless, gentle, obedient, and loyal.
Genuinely religious people who abide by these princi-
ples are respectable, honorable, and distinguished. They have
submitted wholeheartedly to Allah , have deep faith and su-
perior moral qualities, expect no reward for helping others,
and desire only to earn His good pleasure. They side at all
times with the right, good, true, and virtuous morality, and

refrain from all kinds of evil and immorality.
Many philosophies contain teachings that contradict the
morality of divinely revealed religions. For instance, those
Darwinist and materialistic philosophies that have been so in-
fluential during the last two centuries portray individuals as
selfish and unscrupulous and depict life as literally a kind of
arena full of people ruled by their selfish desires and thus dri-
ven to satisfy their strong desire at all costs. Since Darwinism
and materialism have fallen into the error of denying the ex-

istence of Allah's revelation, it does not recognize any ab-
solute criteria applicable to human nature, rejects all values
introduced by the divinely revealed religions. The results of
such views are clearly visible: conflict and tension; ruthless

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