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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

Say: "Who has forbidden the ornament of
God which He has produced for His servants

and the good kinds of provision?" Say: "They
are, in the life of this world, for those who be-

lieve, (and) purely for them on the Day of

Resurrection." In this way We make the signs
clear for people who know. (Qur'an, 7:32)

As we have already seen in detail, women are delightful and
valuable in the view of the Qur'an; female beauty is a blessing.

Female intelligence can lead societies to very broad horizons. God
has bestowed all these beautiful attributes on women; He praises
them and protects them. These fraudulent statements in the fabricat-
ed hadiths above are completely rejected by the Qur'an.

It must not be forgotten that the people who try to ban beauty
and the blessings beloved of God are fanatics. It is therefore a very
great mistake to condemn those who think that the world of the

fanatics is the true one and thus criticize the true Islam out of this
ignorance. The people who really abide by the Qur'an are those who
know that beauty and adornment are blessings from God, not those
who want to ban them.

If the Spirit of the Fanatics Dominated This World...

Let us now have a look at what kind of world might await the
fanatics in the light of these prohibitions. If the bans on painting and

sculpture of the peddlers of superstition were applied in daily life,

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