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FAITH: THE WAY TO HAPPINESS

of helping them and cannot even help themselves? (Surat
al-A‘raf: 191-193)
Those you call on besides Allah are servants just like your -
selves. Call on them and let them respond to you if you are
telling the truth. Do they have legs they can walk with? Do
they have hands they can grasp with? Do they have eyes
they can see with? Do they have ears they can hear with?
Say: "Call on your partner-gods and try all your wiles
against me and grant me no reprieve." (Surat al-A‘raf: 194-
195)
In another verse, Allah tells us that on the Day of Judgment
these people will admit the truth with their own voices:
Then they will be asked, "Where are those besides Allah
you associated with Him?" and they will reply, "They have
forsaken us. Or rather we were not calling to anything at all
before." That is how Allah misguides the disbelievers.
(Surah Ghafir: 73-74)
This is the greatest proof of the magnitude of the heedlessness
and deception of a person who expects help from beings which have
no power at all and gears his whole life to them by making an effort
to meet their wishes and gain their approval and who is in re a l i t y
setting up false gods. In that case, what are these people following
and according to what do they behave? Allah gives us the answer to
that question in the Qur'an:
Yes, indeed! Everyone in the Heavens and everyone on the
earth belongs to Allah. Those who call on something other
than Allah are not really following their partner-gods. They
are only following conjecture. They are only guessing.
(Surah Yunus: 66)
As we can see, such people conform not to reality but to their

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