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ness and despair, is to submit to our Creator Allah and to lead a life He
approves of. Allah says:

… All those who follow My guidance will not go astray and will not
be miserable. But if anyone turns away from My reminder, his life
will be a dark and narrow one and on the Day of Resurrection We
will gather him blind. (Surah Ta Ha, 123-124)

The governor of the heavens and earth, our Lord, reveals that sal-
vation can only be found by following the guidance of the Qur’an.
Allah says the following in the Surah Ibrahim:
... This is a Book We have sent down to you so that you can bring
mankind from the darkness to the light, by the permission of their
Lord, to the Path of the Almighty, the Praiseworthy. (Surah
Ibrahim: 1)

All those who totally and foolishly deny or disregard the existence
of Allah and follow the path of evil will suffer a great loss in this life as
well as the hereafter. They will receive their fair return for wasting their
lives by following false practices which were of no benefit to them.
Whilst they engage in false practices in the belief of doing right, they
will come to realize that they lived in error. Allah reveals the situation
of such people in one of the verses of the Qur’an as follows:
The metaphor of those who take protectors besides Allah is that of
a spider which builds itself a house; but no house is flimsier than a
spider’s house, if they only knew. (Surat al-‘Ankabut: 41)
As made clear in the verse, those who chose the path of denial yet

believe themselves to be right have in reality gone far astray. All their
efforts will come to naught, and they will witness on the Day of
Judgment that all their partners, and all the spells and sorcery they
hoped would protect them cannot help them. Allah reveals:
On the Day they see the angels, there will be no good news that Day
for the evildoers. They will say, “There is an absolute ban.” We will

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