When a man has this intense urge, he tries to get near Allah in whatever condition he is (as mentioned by you), so this 'cool dude' too, when having such strong desires, definitely will try to reach Allah and discover/rediscover the religion with a more serious attitude instead of just listening to the recitation of the Holy Quran in the background. I think when you have such feelings of guilt, you get all in all involved in an activity which you think is going to bring you some fruit, atleast at that instance and under that spell. So first of all, a person won't listen to Holy Quran in the background in order to get Hidyah(discover/rediscover religion) and secondly if he so desires sincerely then I think he would employ other meaningful means instead of passively listening to the Holy Quran.

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