Page 157 - Living in Accordance with the Qur'an

Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya)

You who believe, do not befriend your fathers and brothers if they
prefer disbelief to faith. Those among you who do befriend them
are wrongdoers. (Surat at-Tawba, 23)

God merely forbids you from taking as friends those who have
fought you in the religion and driven you from your homes and
who supported your expulsion. Any who take them as friends are
wrongdoers. (Surat al-Mumtahinah, 9)
You who believe! Do not take any outside yourselves as intimates.
They will do anything to harm you. They love what causes you dis-
tress. Hatred has appeared out of their mouths, but what their

breasts hide is far worse. We have made the Signs clear to you if you
use your intellect. (Surah Al ‘Imran, 118)
You who believe! Do not take as friends any of those who who make
a mockery and a game out of your religion among the ones who
were given the Book before you or the disbelievers. Have fear of
God if you are believers. (Surat al-Ma’idah, 57)
Or did you suppose that you would be left without God knowing
those of you who have strived and who have not taken anyone as

their intimate friends besides God and His Messenger and the
believers? God is aware of what you do. (Surat at-Tawba, 16)
Those who disbelieve are the friends and protectors of one another.
If you do not act in this way (protect each other) there will be tur-
moil in the land and great corruption. (Surat al-Anfal, 73)

NOT ASPIRING AFTER THE LIVES OF DENIERS
AND REFRAINING FROM GIVING INTO
THE ILLUSIONS OF THE WORLDLY LIFE
Mankind! God’s promise is true. Do not let the life of this world

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