Page 27 - Learning from the Qur'an

He encourages extravagance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..379
He threatens people with poverty and
commands them to be avaricious . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..379
He commands people to commit evil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..380
He leads people to treachery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..380
He has nothing to do with goodness and benevolence . ..381
He taints people . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .381
He tries to make evil seem attractive to people . . . . . . . . .381
He can make people forget things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .381
He tries to prevent people from remembering
Allah and worshipping Him . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..382
He distracts people with false hopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..382
He seeks to stir up hatred and
enmity among people . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..382
He is insolent and disobedient to Allah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..383
He is ungrateful to Allah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..384
He lies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..384
He has been banished
from Allah's sight and He is cursed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..384

ANSWERS FROM THE QUR'AN TO THE
QUESTIONS THE UNBELIEVERS
ASK THE BELIEVERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .385
About Allah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..385
About religion, the Qur'an and the Prophet . . . . . . . . . . ..385
About the Day of Resurrection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..387
About resurrection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..388

EXAMPLES OF THE DISBELIEVING
CHARACTERS DESCRIBED
IN THE QUR'AN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .389
Those who take the created ones as gods . . . . . . . . . . . . ..389
Those who only pray at times of hardship
and put Allah behind them
when the harm is removed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..390
Those who pray only for the life of this world . . . . . . . . ..391
Those who abandon their faith upon facing
hardship in the way of Allah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .391
Those who avoid struggling in the Way of Allah . . . . . . .392
Those who deny, despite their certainty
of the existence of Allah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .393
Those who do not believe due to their fear
of facing pressure from the unbelievers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .393

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