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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)
he would drag into Hell all his future descendants. However, this
promise is only applicable to satan's associates and friends. For
those believers however, who fear Allah and are mindful of their ac-
tions, this will have no effect whatsoever.

Their self-sufficiency

To be "self-sufficient" means that one has no need of anything,
that one is without weakness or deficiency, and that one is account-
able to no one. These attributes belong only to Allah. Human beings
and other living creatures are inherently weak and constantly in
need. They are subject to Allah's purposes in the creation and are at
every moment entirely dependent on Him for life and sustenance.
However, as we have pointed out above, people who do not fear
Allah are blinded to their own incapacities due to their closed minds
and corrupted intelligence. It would never occur to them that they
could be either deficient or at fault. Furthermore, because they are
absolutely sure of themselves, they are never hesitant or anxious
about committing wrong actions. Allah refers to this frame of mind
in the Qur'an as being "unbridled."
No indeed! Truly man is unbridled seeing himself as self-
sufficient. (Surat al-`Alaq: 6-7)
As well as these people seeing themselves as totally independ-
ent, they also ignorantly see themselves as exempt from the calami-
tous consequences of their actions. For this reason, they persist in
their reckless boldness. The greater Allah's generosity to them, the
more reckless they become. They do not realize that Allah is merely
testing them, so that the longer they continue in this unbridled fash-
ion, the greater the punishment they will be subjected to in Hell.
Do not let their wealth and their children impress you. Allah

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