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Turning away from religion and Qur’anic injunctions prepares the ground for corruption and mischief. Severing the ties of kinship is a sin which is on a par with doing corruption in the land; (“to do mischief in the land and sever your ties of kinship”).

The blessed Verse addresses those who are frail of faith and turn away from engagement in jihad to save their lives and says unto such people that they should not imagine that they may save themselves through abstaining from engagement in jihad since through deserting they merely pave the way for further corruption and slaughter whose consequence will affect you.

Those who desert jihad, do corruption, and sever ties of kinship are cursed by Allah. Deprivation of Divine Mercy is the consequence of our own acts. The blessed Verse says that such people, i.e., hypocrites, who do corruption in the land and sever the ties of kinship incur Divine damnation, as a consequence of which God has made them deaf and blinded their sight so that they do not perceive the apparent and concealed signs (“[They are] deaf, dumb, and blind. So they do not understand”) ^2 .