Page 233 - Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

To mankind the love of worldly appetites is painted in glowing
colors: women and children, and heaped-up mounds of gold and

silver, and horses with fine markings, and livestock and fertile
farmland. All that is merely the enjoyment of the life of this world.
The best homecoming is in the Presence of God. (Qur'an, 3:14)
Like women, children, gold, silver, splendid animals, farmland and
wealth are all blessings of this world and provided for people to enjoy.
However, a person who has faith will also be aware that all these bless-
ings really belong to God, that all the blessings found in this world are

transitory, and that the most and finest forms of all blessings are to be
found in paradise. None of these blessings therefore turn such people
away from God or prevent them striving on His path. If a person falls into
heedlessness on account of any of these blessings and no longer seeks
God's approval in all things, then this is something stemming from his
own weakness of faith; it is not the fault of the blessings, but of the person
himself. It is therefore the person himself who will have to face the conse-

quences, so long as he does not correct himself. It will do no good to a per-
son trying to blame someone else in the hereafter.
Therefore, a man who seeks to hold women responsible, on the basis
of these false hadiths, for all his own errors, sins and evil deeds, is merely

deceiving himself. According to the Qur'an, faith means that a person
must serve God properly, no matter what the conditions or circum-
stances. Nobody will be able to use the idea that, "I was unable to worship
properly because of women" as an excuse in the hereafter. As we are told
in a verse, "... man will be clear proof against himself in spite of any
excuses he might offer" (Qur'an, 75:14-15) In other words, no matter what
excuses a person may come up with, he is still perfectly aware of the truth.

Some people who blame women for their own lapses on the basis of these
false hadiths are of course perfectly well aware that they are being hypo-
critical and making up the whole idea. Ignoring the fact in this world will
change nothing in the Presence of God, where "… Every self will be paid
in full for what it earned. They will not be wronged." (Qur'an, 3:25)

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