Page 441 - Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

Some opponents of Islam or people who are
suspicious of Islam because of radicalism general-
ly stress this and claim that one should never believe
what a Muslim says about peace and love and that

Muslims are in fact preparing for a major conflict.
They maintain that the Muslims in question apply
the dissimulation described in the Qur'an in that
way, and that Muslims who are really impa-
tiently preparing for war merely pretend to be
envoys of peace and love. Therefore, in these

people's eyes, every Muslim who speaks of
peace and love is lying.

The main problem with the view of
both parties is that they are in fact ignorant
of the Qur'an.

There is one very important condition
attached to the dissimulation that appears
in the Qur'an: "... except for someone forced

to do it whose heart remains at rest in its
faith"... The condition attached to dissimulation in
the verse concerns a person being in danger, under dif-
ficult circumstances, and concealing his faith to escape persecution;
not to conceal rancor and enmity. Almighty God reveals in the
Qur'an how there was a member of Pharaoh's family who had faith,

but who concealed it:

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