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every word, thought and action never lets these realities slip his
mind in any environment whatsoever and does not surrender to
heedlessness.
For a person to continue a life of heedlessness resembles his see-
ing a truck with brake failure hurtling towards him and failing to
get out of the way—even though this is possible—while being fully

aware that it is going to hit and crush him. During his life, a person
can indulge in excess hundreds or thousands of times, can even
spend his entire life in this way, but when death takes him, every-
thing he has experienced is left behind. If a person has passed his
time in heedlessness of the existence of Allah, he will realize on the
day of his death that this way of life, described in ignorant societies
as "making the best of life," has brought him nothing but loss. He
will feel regret for all the excesses he indulged in because he forgot
Allah and the Day of Judgement. But heedless people ignore Allah's
warnings:
Mankind's Reckoning has drawn very close to them, yet they
heedlessly turn away. No fresh reminder comes to them from
their Lord without their listening to it as if it was a game. Their
hearts are distracted... (Surat al-Anbiya': 1-3)

The "Thinking Harms People" Deception

In ignorant societies the superstitious belief that thinking harms
people is prevalent. This great deception is another tactic employed
by Satan to prevent people from thinking about Allah's verses.

Because of his idea, the work of Satan, that thinking will place them
in difficulties, they remain distant from the Qur'an. In ignorant soci-
eties it is even believed that too much thinking drives people mad.
This belief is one more deception, like Satan's other games. On the