Page 52 - Satan's Sly Game: The False Religion of People-Worship

SATAN'S SLY GAME:
THE FALSE RELIGION OF PEOPLE-WORSHIP

Practicing the Qur'an's moral teachings is the only way to
salvation; this is true in forgiving others for the wrongs they
have committed and in everything else we do. The real purpose
of life is to be a servant who wins Allah's favor; who does good
without hope for reward, sacrifices himself for others and gives
of himself freely. He is just, patient, determined to urge good-
ness and dissuade from evil, and totally and unconditionally
given to winning the favor of Allah.
But ignorant people who do not espouse the Qur'an's moral
teachings spend their whole lives in conflict, strife and unhappi-
ness, and they think that such are the facts of life. They cannot
imagine living a quiet life of moral virtue, free from falsehood,
opportunism, insincerity and hypocrisy. They believe that the
world is a place where only the strong survive. They ignore the
reality of the eternal world to come; they live their lives only in
relation to the short life in this world. They reject religious
morality, and are mistaken to think, "Whatever I do in this
world is for profit." Caught in this false world of man-made
rules, they actually regard some human beings as deities (Allah
is beyond that) and feel enslaved to them. As a result, they are
bound to suffer for not obeying Allah's commands; they will live
a degrading life in this world, and their pains will be much more
severe in the world to come. Allah tells us tells us about their
state as follows:
When those who associated others with Allah see those
they associated, they will say, "Our Lord, these are our
partner gods, the ones we called upon apart from You."
But they will fling their words back in their faces: "You
are truly liars!" On that Day they will offer their sub-
mission to Allah and the things they invented will

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