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HARUN YAHYA (ADNAN OKTAR)
generations coming after them lost their faith completely. They
drifted because of their whims and desires and became deprived
of all their values. The Qur'an tells us about these people in the
following words:

Those are some of the Prophets Allah has blessed, from
the descendants of Adam and from those We carried
with Noah, and from the descendants of Abraham and
Israel and from those We guided and chose. When the
signs of the All-Merciful were recited to them, they fell
on their faces, weeping in prostration. An evil genera-
tion succeeded them who neglected the prayers and
followed their appetites. They will plunge into the Val-
ley of Evil. (Surah Maryam: 58-59)
Those people who neglected their divine responsibilities
suffered Allah's wrath expressed through various disasters.
Allah withdrew His favour from these people. In accordance
with the verse "But if anyone turns away from My reminder,
his life will be a dark and narrow one…" (Surah Ta Ha: 124),
they suffered from different afflictions such as scarcity and social
and economic problems arising from their moral degeneration
and political instability.
Under irreligious systems, those people who were insolent
towards the divine revelation were exposed to various pressures
and injustices. The period of Pharaoh (Fir'awn) is a typical exam-
ple recounted in the Qur'an. Exulting in his affluence, Pharaoh
led an extravagant life and his people suffered under his tyran-
ny. This situation is explained in the Qur'an:

Pharaoh exalted himself arrogantly in the land and
divided its people into camps, oppressing one group of
them by slaughtering their sons and letting their