Page 85 - Satan's Sly Game: The False Religion of People-Worship

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

stubble. In the hereafter there is terrible punishment
but also forgiveness from Allah and His good pleasure.
The life of this world is nothing but the enjoyment of
delusion. (Surat al-Hadid, 20)
The real lives of people with this passion are quite different
from how they try to display themselves. They spend their en-
tire day in the simplest and smallest room of the house they
have described so lavishly. Instead of wearing their lavish cloth-
ing, they put on plain, simple, comfortable things. They do not
want to show off to themselves, only to others. That is, they do
not live showy lives where they are not going to be seen. Only
with other people do they feel constrained to give themselves
unnecessary anxiety by the desire to prove themselves.
However, the important thing is not for a person to win
praise from his social circle, but to live in accord with the moral
teachings of the Qur'an and his own human nature. Living other-
wise wearies a person, and he quickly grows old. Ignoring the
moral virtues of the Qur'an, he turns into a hypocrite who speaks
and behaves disingenuously to affect others. The insincere indi-
vidual does not enjoy true affection or respect, nor can such a
character be happy and content in life. And in this world, our
Lord will inflict spiritual misery on anyone who disregards Him
and serves His servants instead. Allah tells us in the Quran that
the suffering in the hereafter will bring sadness and disgrace:
But as for those who have earned bad actions—a bad ac-
tion will be repaid with one the like of it. Debasement
will darken them. They will have no one to protect
them from Allah. It is as if their faces were covered by
dark patches of the night. Those are the Companions of
the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. On the Day

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