Page 55 - Never Plead Ignorance

HARUN YAHYA 53

When they saw it as a storm cloud advancing on their valleys they said,
"This is a storm cloud which will give us rain." No, rather it is what you
desired to hasten – a wind containing painful punishment, destroying
everything at its Lord's command! When morning came you could see
nothing but their dwellings. That is how We repay the people of the evil-
doers. (Surat al-Ahqaf: 24-25)
Do not repeat the mistake of these people. Never plead ignorance of
the fact that you should draw lessons from the experience of the preced-
ing generations that did not take admonition from the warnings of Allah.
As stated in the verse "as to the Thamud, We guided them, but they pre-
ferred blindness to guidance.…." (Surah Fussilat: 17), do not prefer
blindness and disregard that you should take admonition from all events
our Lord makes you live through:
How many wrongdoing cities We destroyed, and now all their roofs and
walls are fallen in; how many abandoned wells and stuccoed palaces!
(Surat al-Hajj: 45)
Have they not travelled about the earth and do they not have hearts to un-
derstand with or ears to hear with? It is not their eyes which are blind but
the hearts in their breasts which are blind. (Surat al-Hajj: 46)