Page 313 - Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

nities, and ultimately lead to disaster in the societies

in which they themselves live.

As in all matters, men and women are equal in
terms of chastity. Adultery is forbidden for women
and for men. As God reveals in verse 35 of Surat al-
Ahzab, "... men and women who guard their chasti-
ty," men have the same obligation to be chaste and
pure as women do. However, the way to achieve this

is not by shutting people up, not letting them out,
and not letting them meet or speak. The way to do it
is for them to adopt the moral values of the Qur'an.
Human beings are not wild creatures that act out of

instinct and go where their desires lead them; human
beings are entities with the capacity to distinguish
right from wrong through their intelligence, their
awareness and, most important of all, the moral val-
ues taught them by God and their love and fear of
Him.

Therefore, what determines whether a person

will behave in a chaste manner is not how much
someone else reveals of their body or how much he
can see of their hair, but his fear of God and moral val-
ues. God reveals in a verse, "… so that God will know
those who fear Him in the Unseen…" (Qur'an, 5:94)
that He will test people even where nobody can see

them. Therefore, using compulsion, shutting peo-
ple away indoors and generally using violence
will not ensure that. Faith, moral values and
worship are matters of the heart alone.

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