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Those words express Marx's enmity towards religion, and also re-
veal his ignorance of it. These statements do not reflect the truth. Allah
commands people to think and inquire. It is communism and other
atheist ideologies that encourage people not to think, and to do what
they are told without question. It is clear that people who do not think
will also never come anywhere near the truth, and will thus lead lives
rife with deception and error. By thinking, man can understand the rea-
son for the creation of the world, and the reason for his own existence.
This truth is revealed in the Qur'an thus:
We did not create the heavens and the earth and everything be-
tween them as a game. We did not create them except with truth but
most of them do not know it. (Surat ad-Dukhan: 38-39)
For this reason, every individual must ponder the reason for first
of all his own creation, and then that of every being or object he sees in
the universe and will encounter throughout his life. Someone who fails
to think will only understand the truth after he is dead, in the presence
of Allah, but by then it will be far too late. Thinking while we have the
opportunity in this life, and then drawing conclusions, will be of great
benefit to us in the life of the hereafter. That is why Allah calls on all
people, by means of his messengers and books, to consider their own
creation and that of the whole universe:
Have they not reflected within themselves? Allah did not create the
heavens and the earth and everything between them except with
truth and for a fixed term. Yet many people reject the meeting with
their Lord. (Surat ar-Rum: 8)
People who oppose to the religious morals, however, like
communist leaders, make all sorts of unfounded allega-
tions to turn people away from religious moral val-
ues, even going so far as to claim, illogically,
that religion prevents people from thinking.
As we have seen here, which is also very
clear in the verses of the Qur'an, though,
on the contrary, religion actually com-
mands people to think.