Page 51 - Satan's Sly Game: The False Religion of People-Worship

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

Qur'an, it is right to exchange evil for evil. This erroneous ra-
tionale is commended in ignorant religions, which assert that no
enemy can ever be a friend; no matter how much good one per-
son does for another, underlying enmity still remains. The only
one who loses is whoever does the favor. Society holds the well-
intentioned to be a weak person who doesn't realize when he is
being abused.
People with this distorted way of thinking believe that they
have to embrace "the facts of life" even more tightly to keep
themselves from falling into traps. They fear that they have to
pay close attention to what people are thinking and to how they
react. These individuals lay great importance on what others
say; assuming that the more they get others to like them, the bet-
ter will be their place in society. They think that once society
likes them, they should absolutely resort to every sort of un-
seemly behavior on the way to attaining their worldly ambi-
tions.
In the Qur'an, however, Allah says that He wants human
beings to be sincere in seeking His pleasure only and not to con-
sider what other people might say. Our Lord commands His ser-
vants' moral character to be the opposite to that of the ignorant
people we have been describing. In the Sight of Allah, a good
person is one who returns good for a wrong committed against
him. Moreover, this kind of behavior is an important step on the
way to creating friendship out of enmity. In the Qur'an, Allah
tells us of this happy result:
A good action and a bad action are not the same. Repel
the bad with something better and, if there is enmity
between you and someone else, he will be like a bosom
friend. (Surah Fussilat, 34)

49