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Guarding Against the Snare of Sloth

Hamza Yusuf

CHAPTER

The True Opposite of the Sin

I asked myself What is the truly opposed? virtue or I don't know what's the opposite word to sin Sinlessness isn't good enough. I was assigned sloth and it seems to me that the answer is interest. If you're not in the middle of things you're apt to begin to Want to want stimulation and if you want stimulation violence first comes to mind. Before long whole generations long to or to war for instance my father Who fought on the German side early in World War one? Comes from a generation the literature Pre-war literature shows they were bored to tears and they were anxious for something really exciting really stimulating to happen.

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