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SATAN: THE SECRET LEADER OF THOSE
WHO DO NOT HEED THE QUR'AN 31

Us. No indeed! We have given these people enjoyment, as We
did their fathers, until life seemed long and good to them. Do
they not see how We come to the land eroding it from its ex-
tremities? Or are they the victors? Say: "I can only warn you
through the Revelation." But the deaf cannot hear the call when
they are warned. (Surat al-Anbiya': 42-45)
Believing that any creatures other than Allah have power, sub-
mitting to their rule, allowing their every thought, belief and moral
value to be a guiding principle and so destroying one's own beliefs

and ideas is heedlessness and mindlessness. In fact this situation
arises from the psychology of being controlled and managed in
weak communities which do not think or exercise their free will.
People in this situation prefer not to think or investigate for them-
selves, seeing it as too difficult; they prefer to follow received ideas,
the "tried and true" and avoid the responsibility that comes with in-
dependent thought. They even follow people who are no longer
alive, contenting themselves to adopt a viewpoint through reading a
single book. They do not consider if the author had been sound in
his thinking, or had been prejudiced or partial. That Marx, Mao,
Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Darwin and a great many other such
atheist leaders of thought or politics still have so much influence on
people's ideas is a very significant example of this.
But it is as dangerous as it is wrong to follow atheist leaders like
those mentioned. A person may not heed calls to believe in Allah be-
cause of ignorance, because of failure to listen sufficiently to the
voice of conscience or for other reasons, but once the truth has been
perceived it is most intelligent to accept it. Continuing to insist on
what is wrong, resisting the truth and failing to do what is right
shows a great lack of reason. Doing what is right is a fine virtue, but
regarding this as a weakness and calculating what people will think