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Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)
who is drunk to perform an observance requiring such great
concentration as the salat (prayer), and in which the person con-
cerned must know what he is saying and doing in repeating the
name of God. Yet the verse also makes it clear that the person
goes back to praying after he has sobered up, once the state of
drunkenness has passed. In other words, that person is still a
Muslim.
The Qur'an is sending the message with this clear pro-
nouncement that even if people make a mistake, they do not
necessarily renounce the faith, while the false hadith literally
refers to murder. The problem is that many people in the radical
world know the false hadith by heart but are unaware of the
true pronouncement in the Qur'an.
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