Page 183 - Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

the number of days they were unable to fast at a later time, and if
people are completely unable to fast because they are sick or because
they cannot endure it easily, they can compensate for this by feeding
the poor. God reveals in the verse that, "God desires ease for you;

He does not desire difficulty for you."
For people to insist that they should still fast despite this easy

and explicit commandment regarding the sick and others who will
find it difficult to do so means wronging themselves. The Qur'an
prohibits a Muslim from doing something that will be harmful to
him.

Setting up a repressive system through false hadiths that contra-
dict the Qur'an, despite this explicit pronouncement in the Qur'an, is
important in revealing the practices involved in the fanatical mind-

set. These people foolishly dislike the affectionate language in the
Qur'an (surely God and the Qur'an are beyond that) and try to man-
ufacture their own religions based on their own dark worlds. That is
why they try to add this repressive superstition onto the faith.

Someone may be sick or feeble; it goes without saying that peo-
ple's constitutions are all different. Many people are tested with var-
ious diseases in this world. Although with His sublime love, God

makes allowances for the sick and feeble, people are still compelled
to fast by force in some countries on the basis of these false hadiths.
It is also not hard to imagine an environment in which someone who
is too sick to fast is imprisoned and kept without food and water. In

such a situation there is no doubt that the person's sickness will
worsen and he will soon die. Thus the fanatical mindset strives to
impose such despotism at the cost of endangering people's lives.

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