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Pleasure from the Perspective of… A. Ghanbarian & A. Asgari Yazdi (127
must choose spiritual and unbelieving people”.
heavenly pleasures over (Qur’an, 16: 107)
worldly and material
pleasures when they clash In the first verse, a group of
with each other. people who prefer the afterlife
In many verses of the over the world have been
Qur’an, emphasis is placed on misguided, and in the second
the superiority of heavenly verse, they are referred to as
pleasures over worldly disbelievers. This concept is
pleasures. Therefore, to attain emphasized in various verses
the more intense and eternal of the Holy Qur’an. (Ref:
pleasures of the afterlife, it is Qur’an, 3: 14; Ibid, 14: 13;
Ibid, 16: 107; Ibid, 75: 20;
necessary to turn a blind eye
to some of the worldly Ibid, 76: 27)
pleasures: Imam Ali (as) condemned
- “(To) those who love this worldly pleasures like this
world's life more than the and said:
hereafter, and turn away “What use is Ali for a
from Allah's path and blessing that will perish,
desire to make it crooked; and a pleasure that will not
these are in a great error”. remain? I seek refuge with
(Qur’an, 14: 3) Allah from the sleep of
reason and the ugliness of
- “This is because they love slip-ups”. (Nahjul Balagha,
this world's life more than Letter. 224)
the hereafter and because
Allah does not guide the Of course, Islam does not
forbid excessive enjoyment of
