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Can a man spend his entire life for God?

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God informs us about the real meaning of the life of this world in Surah 67, verse 2.

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He who created death and life to test which of you is best in action,

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He is the Almighty, the Ever-Forgiving.

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As stated in this verse, everybody is tested in his deeds.

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Those who do good desire to earn the pleasure of God and to enter Paradise.

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And they know that they therefore need to spend every moment of their lives engaged in such an effort.

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Some people, however, are mistaken on this point.

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They think that only performing prayers and avoiding what is forbidden are for the pleasure of God.

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And that the rest of the time is not connected to the religion.

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In fact, man should try to earn the good pleasure of God at every single moment,

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In every word, in every thought, and in every deed.

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A person who intends to devote every moment of his life to God,

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Always speaks in a manner that will be pleasing to him.

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He reminds people of God,

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Forbids them what is wrong,

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And commands them to do what is right.

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At every instant,

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At every instant, he considers how he can best earn the good pleasure of God.

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To spend one's entire life for God is among the basic demands of the religion.

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Therefore, in Sura 6, verse 162,

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God commands believers to

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Why should not man deem himself self-sufficient?

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The main purpose of a person who fears God is to be morally pleasing to him.

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This person knows that he needs to improve himself

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And to engage in a continual effort to be better in behavior.

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Because virtues such as sincerity,

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Honesty,

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Honesty,

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Diligence,

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Self-sacrifice,

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And modesty have no upper limits.

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In other words,

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No one can say,

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I have achieved model behavior.

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It couldn't be any better than this.

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A person's spiritual improvement will be rapid if he sees himself as imperfect and seeks to become better.

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Such a person purifies himself of his wrongdoings and progresses towards even better behavior every single day.

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If someone sees himself as sufficient in any manner,

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Then he will not attempt to seek or to make any improvement.

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As a matter of fact,

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He is unable to find his faults and imperfections and so cannot amend them,

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Which prevents improvement.

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God states in Surah 96 verses 6 and 7 that imagining oneself to be self-sufficient is a serious mistake.

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No, indeed,

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Truly man is unbridled seeing himself as self-sufficient.

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For that reason,

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Man should not deem himself sufficient,

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Neither in performing good deeds that would please God,

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Nor in spiritually improving himself.

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Using the reason that God granted to him,

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He should always ask for improvement.

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Do concepts such as impatience and despair have any place in the lives of believers?

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In verse 200 of Surah 3,

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God advises the faithful to be patient in times of difficulty.

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You who believe,

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Be steadfast,

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Be supreme in steadfastness,

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Be firm on the battlefield,

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And heed God,

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So that hopefully you will be successful.

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Believers use their intellect,

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All material and spiritual means,

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And make the best possible effort in order to overcome difficulties.

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Yet on the other hand,

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Knowing that hardships are special conditions that God creates to test them,

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And that there is an absolute good hidden behind these events,

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They put their trust in God.

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Trust in God is essential in the steadfastness of believers.

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They have an explicit trust that God creates every event with absolute wisdom,

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And that in answering the prayers of believers,

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He will remove these difficulties.

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That is why believers never experience such feelings as despair and hopelessness.

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Stating in Surah 39,

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Verse 53,

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Say,

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My servants,

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You who have transgressed against yourselves,

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Do not despair of the mercy of God.

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Truly God forgives all wrong actions.

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He is the ever-forgiving,

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The most merciful.

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God commands believers not to despair of the mercy of God,

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No matter what happens.

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How is extravagance referred to in the Koran?

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God has forbidden his servants to be extravagant,

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Revealing what the criterion when spending should be.

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Those who, when they spend,

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Are neither extravagant nor mean,

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But take a stance midway between the two.

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Muslims spend everything they have in the way of God,

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And in the way that would please him most.

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They do not forget that what they have is what God has given them as a blessing,

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And that they are not the real owners of any of them.

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When they have to make sacrifices,

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They spend everything they have as commanded by the Koran.

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Yet, when it would be unnecessary expenditure,

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They avoid spending even a single penny wastefully.

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God in the Koran has commanded believers to give their goods to those in need,

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But not to squander them.

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Give your relatives their due,

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And the very poor and travelers,

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But do not squander what you have.

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Squanderers are brothers to the Satans,

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And Satan was ungrateful to his Lord.

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On the other hand,

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Avoiding extravagance should not be misunderstood as to mean avoiding the gifts of God.

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He states in the Koran,

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Eat and drink,

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But do not be profligate.

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He does not love the profligate.

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In this verse,

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God has told believers to enjoy his gifts,

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And has forbidden them only to spend wastefully.

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Today, however,

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In societies remote from religion,

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Extravagance is not paid the attention it is due.

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In restaurants and houses,

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Plates of food,

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Pounds of bread,

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Fruits and vegetables,

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Are thoughtlessly thrown away.

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But God has forbidden extravagance,

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Whether insignificant or insignificant amounts.

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Therefore,

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People should try to find a way to make use of all gifts before they spoil,

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Instead of throwing them away saying,

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This has gone off,

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Or we cannot use this.

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Only in this way,

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They can give these gifts their due value.

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Otherwise,

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The result is scarcity and ingratitude to God.

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How is jealousy referred to in the Quran?

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Envy is condemned in the Quran.

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God has revealed that he created the soul of mankind prone to envy,

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But that believers should be wary of it.

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But people are prone to selfish greed.

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If you do good and have fear of God,

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God is aware of what you do.

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Jealousy comes as a result of not accepting that somebody else is superior to oneself.

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This indeed is an attitude which may lead a person even to haughtiness against God,

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Because it is God who grants people everything they possess.

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He gives as he wills and no one can ever prevent this.

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Apart from this,

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It is also related in the Quran that Satan rebelled against God by not prostrating himself before Adam.

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We are informed that he regards himself superior to Adam.

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So we face an important fact at this point.

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Jealousy is in fact an attribute of Satan.

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And anyone who fears God should strictly avoid it.

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Where does calling others by offensive nickname stand in the Quran?

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People who do not live by the religion of God deride other people by calling them by offensive nicknames in attempt to dishonor them and thus exalt themselves.

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Believers, on the other hand, never behave in such a poor manner.

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God strictly prohibits believers from doing so, stating that those who do not obey this injunction are evildoers.

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You who believe, people should not ridicule others who may be better than themselves, nor should any woman ridicule other women who may be better than themselves.

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And do not find fault with one another or insult each other with derogatory nicknames.

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How evil it is to have a name for evil conduct after coming to faith.

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Those people who do not turn from it are wrongdoers.

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Those who conform to the morals of the Quran never behave in this indecent way, which is disapproved of by God.

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They address each other in the most pleasing way and deeply respect each other as sincere servants of God.

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What does the Quran say about mockery?

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Mockery is an example of poor morality which God certainly does not approve of.

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There are many manifestations of mockery in irreligious societies,

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including mocking the imperfections or defects of others and calling one another by unpleasant nicknames.

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In the Quran, God warns people against this evil act as follows.

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Woe to every fault-finding backbiter.

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Another type of mockery referred to by God in the Quran is that of believers by unbelievers.

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It is revealed in the Quran that unable to grasp that the believers were on the true path,

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people who believed themselves to be superior to the believers mocked them.

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Some of the verses on this subject read,

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Those who did evil used to laugh at those who believed.

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When they passed by them, they would wink at one another.

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Yet, God reveals that these people are greatly mistaken

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and heralds the tragic end they will come to as follows.

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So today, those who believe are laughing at the disbelievers on couches, gazing in wonder.

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Have the disbelievers been rewarded for what they did?

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Furthermore, God describes in the Quran those who hold Islam and His revelations to mockery

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and reveals that these people reject every warning from God and His messengers.

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They are the people who do not measure the power of God to its full extent

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and ignore the fact that they will be judged in His presence.

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Yet, these people will be bewildered in the hereafter

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and will be repaid for the mockery they used to engage in.

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This fact is clearly mentioned in the Quran as

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Those are the people who reject their Lord's signs and the meeting with Him.

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Their actions will come to nothing and, on the day of rising,

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we will not assign them any weight.

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That is their repayment, hell, because they disbelieved

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and made a mockery of My signs and of My messengers.

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What is the place of gossip in the Quran?

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In the Quran, God forbids believers from backbiting

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and refers to it as an indecency.

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Do not backbite one another.

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Would any of you like to eat his brother's dead flesh?

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No, you would hate it.

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And heed God.

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God is ever returning.

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Most merciful.

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As commanded by this verse,

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people who live by the religion

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and are like brothers and sisters to each other

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strictly avoid this behavior.

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On the contrary,

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believers remember only each other's good intentions

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and always try to highlight their good attributes.

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They do not try to find defects or faults in those who are submissive to the will of God.

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Gossip is a corruption that never exists among believers who maintain the limits set by God.

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When believers notice an imperfection or other defect in another,

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they do not backbite, but instead admonish the person directly so that he will amend his unacceptable behavior.

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How is suspicion defined in the Quran?

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How is suspicion defined in the Quran?

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Acting on suspicion and conjecture is another thing God does not approve of.

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Acting on suspicion and conjecture is another thing God does not approve of.

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God has indicated in many verses in the Koran that acting on suspicion is a characteristic of the societies of ignorance and that it brings no good to mankind.

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He has commanded his believing servants to avoid suspicion.

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Acting on this advice of God, believers do not develop any ideas on any issue based on unfounded information.

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Any word they utter or any idea they communicate is always in compliance with Koranic morals, always based on absolute evidence and always just.

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They do not arrive at suspicion based decisions about a person without asking his opinion or gathering valid evidence against him.

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The attention that believers pay to this issue is a result of their fear of God.

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Knowing that they will encounter every action they perform in the hereafter and fearing the punishment of God, believers are very careful and just in this respect.

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God describes suspicion in the Koran in these words,

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You who believe, avoid most suspicion. Indeed some suspicion is a crime.

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How should a Muslim spend his time?

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We see in the Koran that the concept of spare time does not apply to believers.

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Every instant of a Muslim's life is indeed occupied.

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Because someone who fears God and scrupulously abides by his commands works to perform even more auspicious deeds.

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A believer who fears God and meticulously obeys his commands performs continuous good deeds in order to do more good and thus to be among those closest to God.

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He spends his time in prayers that God has indicated in the Koran.

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Whenever he has finished one piece of work he embarks on another one.

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He continuously seeks goodness and beauty.

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There are no interruptions, pauses or limits during these efforts.

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Finishing one piece of work to believers merely indicates the need to start a new one.

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This is because a believer is well aware that he should spend every moment of this world making efforts to earn God's contentment

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and that in the hereafter he will have to account for every instant.

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These efforts made by believers are referred to in the Koran as follows.

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So when you have finished work on and make your Lord your goal.

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Since all that a believer does he does in order to gain the good pleasure of God, everything he does in his daily life becomes an act of worship.

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When he is weary he rests for the sake of God and when he is hungry he eats for his sake.

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He sleeps or washes for the sake of God.

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The important thing is never to forget God as one does all these things.

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To give thanks to him and to see everything as auspicious.

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How can one turn away from worthless and useless things?

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What are worthless and useless?

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One can turn away from worthless and useless things if one acts in order to gain the good pleasure of God alone.

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Believers know that they need to use the time granted to them in this world in the most efficient way.

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Because what they do in this world determines their permanent abode.

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Therefore, in every deed they perform they aim to gain a good deed for the hereafter.

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Naturally they talk, have fun, eat, laugh, think and work the same as everyone else.

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But in doing these things they always bear good thoughts in their minds which will be beneficial to other people and to the religion.

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Apart from these things all believers acts serve a purpose.

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They always turn towards to good deeds that will most gain the pleasure of God.

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They use their time efficiently by properly distinguishing between all worldly matters.

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They do this by use of their conscience and reason, decide what is worthless and what is useful, and act in a totally determined manner.

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The attitude adopted by believers when they hear worthless talk is related in the Quran in these words.

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When they hear worthless talk they turn away from it and say,

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We have our actions and you have your actions. Peace be upon you.

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We do not desire the company of the ignorant.

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Taking this superior morality described in the Quran as an example is a major source of ease for everyone.

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It is also good behavior that will be pleasing to God.

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What do believers show patience in?

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One of the distinguishing attributes of believers is their steadfastness.

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However, the concept of steadfastness that we learn from the Quran does not mean endurance at times of hardship.

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What is recommended in the Quran is to display patience when it comes to choosing the kind of behavior that will be pleasing to God

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and in all situations, in other words, at all times.

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Everyone who has faith knows that God tests people in this world with difficulties or sickness.

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For this reason, such people are patient and place themselves in the hands of God, even in the face of the worst sickness or difficulty.

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They turn to God in all things, in the knowledge that it is He who gives difficulty and sickness, and that only He can take them away.

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God tests believers with a variety of situations, such as hunger, fear, and loss of goods or prosperity.

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The believer described in the Quran perseveringly seeks the good pleasure of God regardless of the circumstances.

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In prosperity, He gives thanks to God. In case of difficulty and hardship, He puts his trust in Him.

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For Him, the benefits of the religion and believers are always superior to personal benefits.

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He fulfills every detail of a virtuous character throughout His entire life.

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He is sincere, honest, generous, diligent, and eager.

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He always speaks in generosity and gentleness, and always tries to serve the religion.

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Briefly, He applies everything that God points out as being good.

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As a reward for this, God gives His steadfast servants glad tidings in Surah 2, verse 155-157 as

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We will test you with a certain amount of fear and hunger and loss of wealth and life and fruits.

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But give good news to the steadfast.

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Those who, when disaster strikes them, say,

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We belong to God and to Him we will return.

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Those are the people who will have blessings and mercy from their Lord.

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They are the ones who are guided.

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If you want to have a pleasant reward in this world and the hereafter,

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then be patient and be of good morals in the face of all difficulty and sickness.