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for which they will be held responsible on the Day of
Judgement.
For example, a man receives a letter from his office or
school in an envelope reading 'most important for your
career/education'. He is asked to read this letter and
completely fulfil its requirements by a certain date. What will
he do? Will he hang it up on the wall without even reading it,
just put it in the drawer, or read and disregard what is written
in it? Or will he immediately start reading it with great
excitement and attention as soon as he received it, and
immediately act fully upon its contents?
His wisdom and common sense would definitely tell him
to read this message. However, most people, due to the state
of heedlessness they are in, do not lift a finger to read the most
vital book in existence: the message of Allah to His people.
The fact that people have abandoned the book Allah sent
is stated as follows in the Qur'an:
The Messenger says: 'My Lord, my people
treat this Qur'an as something to be ignored.'
(Surat al-Furqan: 30)
When a messenger comes to them from Allah
confirming what is with them, a group of
those who have been given the Book
disdainfully toss the Book of Allah behind their
backs, just as if they did not know. (Surat al-
Baqara:101)
In the above verse, the expression 'as if they did not know'
points out that although people know, they ignore the book of
Allah. Everyone, deep in his conscience, knows that he must
read and practise the Qur'an, but the majority ignores it. The
reason for this is that people do not follow their conscience.