Page 69 - Fear of Allah

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)
contradictory nature of their position is their further assertion that
their hearts are pure and that they cause no harm to anyone.
Their attitude is based on the confident belief they will never be
sent to the Fire, in other words they view themselves as certain can-
didates for admission to the Garden. What is also particularly inter-
esting are the criteria they have come up with in order to define the
type of person who will enter the Fire, and the corresponding arro-
gance with which they declare everyone else as fit for the Garden.
According to them, the people deserving of the Fire are the crim-
inals and delinquents one generally sees on television or in the pa-
pers such as murderers, thieves, terrorists, and assorted deviants
who are determined to cause harm to others. Those excluded from
this list, the "average person," who constitute the majority of hu-
manity however, assume all their sins will be immediately forgiven.
It is the nature of the criteria they themselves have selected
which has given rise to the assumption that they are of the people of
the Garden, given that they have not committed murder or stolen
anything and that they are not terrorists. Thus despite their claims to
being Muslims, neither their willingness to commit all forms of
transgression, nor their unwillingness to worship, nor their unwill-
ingness to abide by the Qur'an and to lead their lives safely within
the limits established by Allah, arouses within them any sense of
fear or nervousness. The simple reason for this is their mistaken as-
sumption that none of these actions or omissions constitute suffi-
cient cause to be sent to the Fire.
However, this is a terrible mistake, which may drag them to the
pits of the Fire. These ignorant people conjure up values and priori-
ties in the name of Islam, which are very different from those con-
tained in the Qur'an and related bu our Prophet (saas). In other
words, matters on which Allah places the greatest importance end

67