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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)
What you call the idolaters to follow is very hard for
them. Allah chooses for Himself anyone He wills, and
guides to Himself those who turn to Him. (Surat Ash-
Shura: 13)
As Allah revealed in the Qur'an "...We believe in Allah
and what has been sent down to us and what was sent down
to Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the
Tribes, and what Moses and Jesus were given, and what all
the Prophets were given by their Lord. We do not differen-
tiate between any of them. We are Muslims submitted to
Him' (Surat Al-Baqara: 136), Muslims believe in all the
prophets, making no distinction between them, have a pro-
found love for them all and take the lives and moral values of
these holy individuals as models for themselves.
All the prophets have preached the true faith in the Sight
of our Lord to their peoples, have called on them to believe in
Allah, the One and Only, and have warned and frightened
them with regard to the Day of Judgment. All the prophets
are holy individuals with superior moral virtues and pro-
found faith and must serve as models for Muslims and are re-
membered with respect. Just like Allah praised these blessed
individuals in the Qur'an, Muslims must praise and remem-
ber the exemplary virtues, behavior and faith of the Prophets
Muhammad (may Allah bless him and grant him peace),
Jesus, Moses, Jacob, Noah, Joseph, Abraham, Elijah, Jethro,
Lot and all the other prophets (peace be upon them all) with
fervor and enthusiasm. This is a form of religious obser-
vances that Allah praises in the Qur'an. There is wisdom in
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