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Today the world is becoming more and
more sensitive to environmental pollution. Cleansing the atmosphere and
human surroundings from things that are detrimental to any form of life
has assumed unprecedented importance. This is of course a very healthy
development. In the limited life span we all have, our quality of life
should be as high as possible. However, there is another form of pollution
to which God wants us to become sensitive to as well. It can be called
‘moral pollution’.
If environmental pollution is detrimental
for man’s physical being, moral pollution is detrimental for his spiritual
being. A body which is morally polluted is perhaps dirtier than a place
which is environmentally polluted. It is only a question of recognizing
this reality. Man tends to forget it and the Gracious Allah constantly
reminds him of it.
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