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veals the situation of people who acquire idols besides Him in the fol-
lowing verse:

But they have adopted gods apart from Him which do not create
anything but are themselves created. They have no power to harm
or help themselves. They have no power over death or life or resur-
rection. (Surat al-Furqan: 3)
Allah has created man from nothing and no man has either will
nor power by Himself. Man speaks by Allah’s will and lives with the
life He gives him. No human being has the power to move in the slight-
est way outside of his Allah-given destiny, and every man will die at
the time and place determined by Allah without being able to move

this appointed time forward or backward by so much as a second. For
this reason it is a grave mistake and an act of ignorance to idolize man,
who has been created on earth with weaknesses and desires. Allah re-
veals that He created man weak: ”... Man was created weak.” (Surat
an-Nisa’: 28) The following are other verses pertaining to man’s nature:
O man! what has deluded you in respect of your Noble Lord? He
Who created you and formed you and proportioned you and as-
sembled you in whatever way He willed. Yes indeed! But still you
deny the Judgment. (Surat al-Infitar: 6-9)
The purpose of man’s creation is revealed in the Surat adh-
Dhariyat:

I only created jinn and man to worship Me. (Surat adh-Dhariyat: 56)
Therefore, the path suggested by Jains for the supposed salvation
of the human soul is an extremely erroneous one. And it is most cer-
tainly not a means to happiness. In addition, it is a huge perversion to
make claims about humans achieving divinity together with alleged

salvation. The purpose of man is to serve his Lord and he can expect to
win Allah’s good pleasure, mercy and paradise.

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)