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Guarding Against the Snare of Sloth

Hamza Yusuf

CHAPTER

The Origin of Selfishness

The origin of selfishness is Self-preservation. The true cases of selfishness are often cases of taking care of yourself so that you may then take care of others That's not what I mean. But again it becomes a perversion Like what the selfishness that you're talking about. It doesn't come from You know why people do these extraordinary things and very often they don't know why they did it they just responded There.

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