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entific developments closely, or perhaps because they do not want
to observe these and understand them. With great patience they
await Marx's predictions and utopias, drawn up in the dark pages of
the 19th century, coming true. They still believe that the ideas of
Darwin, which were destroyed by scientific developments at the
start of the 20th century, are valid. They only debate with people
who hold the same views, and for year after year they read the same
newspapers and watch the same films. The expression they most
frequently use is, "I have not changed for years. The ideas I upheld
40 hears ago I still uphold." But it should not be forgotten that such
a statement is only reasonable when it comes from someone who is
putting forward absolute truth.
These people feel proud of showing resistance to change, oppos-
ing innovation and rejecting other ideas without listening to them.
They believe so blindly in the anti-religious words of those like
Marx, Darwin and Mao that they scorn reading the Qur'an, or books
explaining the Qur'an, simply to avoid having to go back on their
prior convictions. They are convinced, or more correctly, have been

convinced, that reading or learning from the Qur'an will do them
great harm.
An invitation to the moral code of the Qur'an, however, is an op-
portunity for these people to learn from their previous experience,
improve themselves by profiting from their mistakes, investigate
finer and more truthful things and rescue themselves from their
fixed ideas. But people with these fixed ideas reject the invitations
made to them and the sincere criticisms and kind-hearted recom-
mendations of those who make them because they regard them as
inferior and they never abandon the beliefs to which they are so
blindly attached.
But why do people approach new information, ideas, concepts or