The Teachings of Islam
Three Types of Human Being
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towards them, for He is the All-Forgiving, the All-
Merciful (9:102).
There are yet others who have taken to self-
worship, materialism and arrogance. They never,
for God’s sake, constrain themselves in thought,
word or deed. They live for themselves rather than
for God, and think of the world rather than the
after-life. How, then, can they hope to find a place
of honour in the everlasting world of God? Nothing
but hell-fire awaits such people in eternity. (11:15-16).
