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nore the fact that there are no other protectors or helpers besides Allah,
and who insist on disregarding His gifts will experience devastating re-
gret. Allah reveals the situation of such people in the Qur’an:

Say: “Can any of your partner-gods bring Creation out of nothing
and then regenerate it?” Say: “Allah brings Creation out of nothing
and then regenerates it. So how have you been perverted?” Say:
“Can any of your partner-gods guide to the truth?” Say: “Allah
guides to the truth. Who has more right to be followed – He Who
guides to the truth, or he who cannot guide unless he is guided?
What is the matter with you? How do you reach your judgment?”
(Surah Yunus: 34-35)
One of the reasons for people to practice irrational and illogical
techniques such as yoga, meditation and reiki, is that they seek con-
tentment and peace in the wrong place and imagine that by these
means they can escape the stress and sufferings of their everyday lives.

Advertisements for such pagan practices make frequent use of terms
like “inner peace, spiritual balance and inner happiness”. People are all
too easily misled to believe that these erroneous practices can deliver
them from the selfish, competitive, conflicting, loveless and cruel way
of life of the materialistic society in which they live. In reality however,
these false practices cannot deliver inner peace and spiritual fulfill-
ment. To the contrary, by practicing these superstitious Far Eastern re-
ligions they become people who have lost the ability to reason and act
rationally, who expect help from stone and wooden idols, and hope to
find solutions in sorcery and heretical rituals. Societies in which the su-
perstitious Far Eastern philosophies are influential reveals the existence

of many people who display the signs of psychological damage, apathy
and a schizophrenic state of mind removed from the reality of life.
It is a clear fact that the only way to find true contentment and
happiness and deliverance from every kind of evil, cruelty, hopeless-

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)