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Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya)
Their hearts are distracted. Those who do wrong confer together
secretly, saying, ‘Is this man anything but a human being like your-
selves? Do you succumb to magic with your eyes wide open?’ (Surat
al-Anbiya’, 3)
We did not create heaven and earth and everything in between
them as a game. (Surat al-Anbiya’, 16)
So when you have finished, work on. (Surat al-Inshirah, 7)
REFRAINING FROM GIVING PROMISES THAT
CANNOT BE KEPT
You who believe! Why do you say what you do not do? It is deply
abhorrent to God that you should say what you do not do. (Surat
as-Saff, 2-3)
And that they say what they practise not? (Surat ash-Shu`ara’, 226)
KEEPING ONE’S SELF BUSY TO AVOID IDLENESS
So when you have finished, work on. (Surat al-Inshirah, 7)
THANKING GOD WHILE WORKING
They made for him (Sulayman) anything he wished: high arches
and statues, huge dishes like cisterns, great built-in cooking vats.
‘Work, family of Dawud, in thankfulness!’ But very few of My ser-
vants are thankful. (Surah Saba’, 13)
REFRAINING FROM INSINCERE BEHAVIOR SUCH
AS “BRAGGING ABOUT THINGS ONE DID NOT
ACCOMPLISH”
Those who exult in what they have done and love to be praised for
what they have not done should not suppose that they have
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