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Qur'anic factors of social decline

عوامل انحدار المجتمع في القرآن

Arjun lists three signs of decline: decay at the top of society, which warns of general corruption; luxury, which kills honour and makes vice ordinary; and reliance on oppressors. He reads the Qur'an as showing that social corruption is requited faster than unbelief in this life 1.

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'Arjun names three signs that precede a society's decline: corruption at the summit — a rot from the top that heralds general ruin 2; wallowing in luxury, which kills zeal and pride and makes vice familiar 2; and inclining toward the wrongdoers 3. He argues from al-Isra' and Hud that God takes a people for social corruption faster than for unbelief, the penalty of wrong and corruption being immediate in this world.

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The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings· Intellectual invasion (al-ghazw al-fikri) in the Sheikh's view· Islamic management· Media and the responsibility of its producers· al-Anwāʾ (Star Rains)· Jahiliyya names of days and months· The ill-omened days· Divining Arrows

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  1. Sunan Allah in Society through the Qur'an — Muhammad al-Sadiq Arjun , p. 40-41
  2. Sunan Allah in Society through the Qur'an — Muhammad al-Sadiq Arjun , p. 40
  3. Sunan Allah in Society through the Qur'an — Muhammad al-Sadiq Arjun , p. 41
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