Page 58 - Those Who Do Not Heed The Qur'an

56 THOSE WHO DO NOT HEED THE QUR'AN

These verses describe how the sole reason prompting mockery
and violent enmity from deniers toward the faithful is reciting
Allah's signs.
One of the principle aims of those who defy faith is to keep other
people away from a moral life and to divert them from the true path.
They do their utmost to keep apart anyone who may feel sympathy
for the faithful and want to talk with them and listen to their ideas.
In this way they prevent people from entering into the circles of
those who remind others about Allah and His signs, who think
about the proximity of death and who exercise their consciences.
They prefer everybody to be like them and shy away from the verses
of the Qur'an, living their lives without thinking about the purpose
of their creation.
One of the examples of this given by the Qur'an is that of the
Companions of the Cave. The Companions of the Cave, who are a
group of young believers, are forced by extreme pressure from de-
niers to take refuge in a cave. Surat al-Kahf tells us:
We fortified their hearts when they stood up and said, "Our
Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth and We will not
call on any god apart from Him. We would in that case have ut-
tered an abomination. These people of ours have taken gods
apart from Him. Why do they not produce a clear authority
concerning them? Who could do greater wrong than someone
who invents a lie against Allah?" [The youths said to one an-
other:] "When you have separated yourselves from them and
everything they worship except Allah, take refuge in the cave
and your Lord will unfold His mercy to you and open the way
to the best for you in your situation." (Surat al-Kahf: 14-16)

Those who would prevent the prophets from receiving support
from the community have, throughout history, employed various