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to this extent with such repulsive practices requires mental, spiritual and
rational degeneration. The fact that not even university educated

Hindus of a certain intellectual capacity will compromise on these per-
verse practices, shows clearly the dark and dangerous hold of the Hindu
faith on people. These people’s minds are so clouded by the supersti-
tious Hindu traditions that they are no longer aware of what they are do-
ing and why they are doing it; they have lost the ability to distinguish
between right and wrong. There is another factor they are unaware of:
even if all their idols were to join their forces, “nothing and no one and

no way” could they prevent a disaster sent to them by Allah. Allah says
in the Surat al-A‘raf:
Do they make things into partner-gods which cannot create anything
and are themselves created; which are not capable of helping them
and cannot even help themselves? (Surat al-A‘raf: 191-192)
It is interesting to observe that cows are sacred animals in the
Hindu faith, because Allah reveals many verses of the Qur’an regarding

those who perversely worshipped the calf: As for those who took the
calf (for worship), anger from their Lord will overtake them together
with abasement in the life of this world. That is how we repay the pur-
veyors of falsehood. (Surat al-A‘raf: 152) It is revealed in the verses that
when the Prophet Moses (pbuh) left his nation, some of the Israelites be-
gan to idolize the calf and worshipped it in his absence. Allah reveals in
Surat al-Baqara as:

And when We allotted to Moses forty nights. Then you took the calf
(for worship) when he had gone and you were wrongdoers. (Surat al-
Baqara: 51)
Then he produced a calf for them, a physical form which made a low-
ing sound. So they said, “This is your god – and Moses’s god as well,
but he forgot.” Could they not see that it did not reply to them and

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)