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FEAR OF ALLAH
up, according to their facile reasoning, being considered as mar-
ginal. Thus, their self-invented religious perspectives offer them a
lifestyle which is false and completely at odds with a genuine fear of
Allah. In the following Qur'anic verse Allah draws attention to the
corrupt logic of these people:
Say: "Who provides for you out of heaven and Earth? Who
controls hearing and sight? Who brings forth the living from
the dead and the dead from the living? Who directs the
whole affair?" They will say, "Allah." Say, "So will you not
guard against evil?" (Surah Yunus: 31)
These people cannot adhere to the commands and prohibitions
of the true religion because of their determined commitment to their
own superstitious version of things. Hence, they continue to lead
their lives under a false sense of security induced by the fatal misap-
prehension that they are destined for the Garden; they are merely
fooling themselves. However, no matter how much they deceive
themselves their conscience will always remind them of the true re-
ality. When confronted with the realities of the Qur'an, they find it
impossible to admit that they have wasted their entire lives with
sins and grave mistakes, they absolutely refuse to listen to anyone
who tries to clarify the situation for them. Therefore, in order not to
have to dwell on it, they consciously distract themselves by focusing
on other issues. In other words, when anything comes up or a
thought enters their minds that might cause them fear or anxiety,
they immediately turn their attention elsewhere, preferring to re-
main in a state of imaginary safety. They attempt to block out
thoughts of Allah, His threats, and His punishment, in other words,
they exist in a state of perpetual denial of the reality of their predica-
ment: the impossibility of escaping the inescapable justice of Allah.
However hard they try, their mindless determination to avoid the

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