Page 65 - Satan's Sly Game: The False Religion of People-Worship

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

Fierce competition for this world distracted you, until
you went down to graves. (Surat at-Takathur, 1-2)
The reality is not as it appears, however, to those who think
it a virtue to be in the majority. Allah did not create the world so
that individuals could contend with one another and gain supe-
riority in selfish pursuits; He created it to test who would do the
best things in their service to Him. Allah says in the Qur'an as
such:
He Who created death and life to test which of you is
best in action. He is the Almighty, the Ever-Forgiving.
(Surat al-Mulk, 2)
For this reason, the most pleasurable, happy and joyful
things are those that are done to win Allah's favor, because a
human being can be basically satisfied by the joy that faith
brings. All else brings a short-lived sense of satisfaction that will
be of no benefit in the hereafter.
Yet some individuals reject true morality of religion and
prefer to worship people they idolize other beings apart from
Allah (Allah is beyond that) and as a result, base everything they
do on this erroneous foundation. They are always ostentatious,
showing off to others the things they have been given. But os-
tentation puts great material and spiritual burdens on an indi-
vidual. It wearies his mind and body and distances him from his
very nature, turning him into someone who acts inhumanely to-
wards others, treating them harshly, with anger, grudging insin-
cerity and hypocrisy. This person may even start performing
acts of worship that require sincerity of heart so that others will
say that he is a devout Muslim. In the Qur'an, Allah tells us of
people who practice religion as lip service to others.

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