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

For this reason, they believe with all their heart that Allah is
the One Who must be feared and that they must do everything
they can to win His favor. This strong faith produces a natural,
sincere behavior in believers. Even when they are with other peo-
ple, they are aware that they are in Allah's Presence. In what they
say and do, He keeps them from every kind of artificiality and
protects them from insincere thoughts and ostentatious acts.

The Tendency to Hide What They Believe
Some people of faith feel the need to hide their beliefs in a
superstitious belief system in which people exclude devout peo-
ple who fulfill their religious obligations, consider them with
their own foolish minds as backward and outdated people. They
think that society will reject them for their faith, and so many
are mistaken to compromise their acts of worship in order to
avoid losing their jobs or worldly social status.
With an outlook totally divorced from the facts, societies
that do not know Allah and generally ignorant about religion
view religion as the same as being closed off from the world, out
of step with modern times and opposed to every new develop-
ment in the world—a longing for an imaginary description of the
sort of life people lived thousands of years ago. As the general
prejudice has it, religious people share this view of the world.
This is why some individuals avoid religion and devout
people entirely; why they refuse to learn the morality of religion
at all. And even if they do believe in Allah, they will keep their
faith secret because they do not want to be known in society as a
"religious fanatic." They fear that if other people learn the truth,
their mutual ties will be broken, leaving them to suffer both ma-
terially and spiritually.

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