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209 despised tomorrow. If a people is looked down upon today, tomorrow when they attain to power, they are sure to seek to humiliate those that looked down upon them, thus setting in motion a vicious circle of hatred and disorder. When the field of improvement and progress is without discrimination open to all God’s creatures, why should a particular nation or class or section be despised? With regard to adultery and fornication the Holy Quran says, 'It is an impurity and an evil way. ' 117 That is to say, it is a vice which produces a sense of secret guilt in the mind and renders it impure and it is a wrong way of achieving the object underlying the sexual instinct. The object of this instinct is the propagation and preser- vation of the human race. Illicit intercourse defeats that object by preventing birth or by rendering the parentage of the child doubtful and thus putting its care and bring- ing up in peril. Concerning miserliness the Holy Quran says: 'Some of you are miserly, and he who is miserly is miserly to his own prejudice. ' 118 That is to say, a miser only deprives himself of the use of his wealth. He deprives himself of the enjoy- ment of eating good food, wearing good clothes, and living in a good house, etc. He goes on hoarding money, 117 Ban i ’Isr a ’ i l, 17:33. 118 Mu h ammad, 47:39.