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42 WHY DO YOU DECEIVE YOURSELF?

ple as blind and deaf. Of course, this is not physical blindness and
deafness. Allah is pointing out that such people are blind and deaf in
the spiritual sense and that they ignore the truth because they do not
hear His call to the true path. In short, by failing to follow their intelli-
gence and their consciences, these people ignore Allah's instructions
and the Day of Judgment, and they believe they are protecting them-
selves by doing so. The truth is that they are only fooling themselves.
Let us state from the outset that people who deceive themselves
are not some small, exceptional minority amongst those on the face of

the Earth. As we are told in the Qur'an, "...But most of them do not
know the truth, so they turn away" (Surat al-Anbiya': 24). And again,
"many people reject the meeting with their Lord" (Surat ar-Rum: 8).
In order to avoid becoming one of the people in question, you
should think for yourself one more time and make an effort to avoid
being a self deceiver because deceiving yourself by closing your eyes
to the truth while you are in the world brings you not benefit, but great
harm in the Hereafter.

Those who say: "It didn't occur to me,
I didn't know"
If we compare every moment a person experiences in his life to a
frame from a film, we can see that there are trillions of frames. Every
one of these trillions represents an opportunity which the person is
given. Every moment in life is an opportunity to think about the facts
and see the truth before the Day of Judgment arrives. Those who use

this blessing to their advantage are the people who can understand the
real direction of worldly life by thinking about it. People who do not
think and live their lives in error cannot take advantage of this oppor-
tunity.