Page 55 - Satan's Sly Game: The False Religion of People-Worship

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

ers, apt to betray their families and even their country. Without
thinking, they commit acts that Allah has forbidden. But this
should not be allowed to influence others. The fact that this sort
of people make up the majority of a society should not justify
everyone's behaving the same. For instance, even though an en-
tire society has ignorantly taken fire, the Sun or stars as deities,
practicing the perversion of worshipping them, this by no
means becomes a justification for someone else to adopt the
same perversion. Or say that a society is silent about prostitu-
tion, fraud, injustice, thievery and other such amoral acts. No in-
dividual has to display the same immorality just because
everyone else does. Or if the rich in a society are respected and
the poor—possessing nothing besides their good names—are
oppressed, there is no reason to spark this errant mentality in
others. On the contrary, condoning injustice out of fear of soci-
ety's criticism is itself a behavior non-conforming to wisdom
and conscience. It's unreasonable for a person to refrain from be-
having as his conscience demands, just because he fears being
criticized, rejected and despised by society. In the Qur'an, Allah
tells us that one of the greatest qualities of Muslims is that they
do not fear criticism:
You who believe! If any of you renounce your religion,
Allah will bring forward a people whom He loves and
who love Him, humble to the believers, fierce to the
disbelievers, who strive in the Way of Allah and do not
fear the blame of any censurer. That is the unbounded
favor of Allah which He gives to whoever He wills.
Allah is Boundless, All-Knowing. (Surat al-Ma'ida, 54)
In another Surah Allah gives us the example of the Prophet

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