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FROM THE QUR'AN

contrary, people experience far more problems when they do not
think, than when they do.
Actually, not thinking about death and the Day of Judgement is
an illusion that deceives people into believing they will not be ac-
countable for their deeds. Whether a person thinks about them or
not, responsibilities are neither reduced nor altered, because Allah
holds everybody responsible for having faith and living according
to Qur'anic morality. Everybody is tested in this life and sooner or
later will face previously ignored realities.
Another result of the failure to think is that people do not draw
lessons from events occurring around them or from their own per-
sonal experiences. The events that Allah creates to make people
think and amend their behaviour have no effect on these people at
all. By convincing themselves that all events occurring in the world
are accidental, they fail to appreciate the reason for events that
might teach them a lesson. Allah refers to such behaviour like this:
Do they not see that they are tried once or twice in every year?
But still they do not turn back. They do not pay heed. (Surat at-
Tawba: 126)

In truth, major disasters, serious problems, and this-worldly
troubles are extremely important occurrences that direct people to-
wards thought, but rejecters of the faith have made these events the
subject of argument. They begin by claiming that events are acci-
dental and so evade thinking about them. They say, as Allah says in
the Qur'an, "… Our forefathers too underwent both hardship and
ease..." (Surat al-A'raf: 95) and continue their heedless lives. They
feign ignorance about disasters which happen to them by saying,
"It's just accidental," "a major natural disaster," "this was only to be
expected," "such things happen in any society," and "a great misfor-
tune." With such words, they provide themselves with their own ex-