Page 90 - Satan's Sly Game: The False Religion of People-Worship

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

them from material attachments. It makes them responsible only
to Allah and to the commands in His true book. In many verses
of the Qur'an, Allah mentions the simplicity of Islam, saying that
human beings will find success in this simplicity:
We will ease you to the Easy Way. (Surat al-A'la, 8)
In another verse, He says that one major characteristic of
the Messengers sent is that they free believers from the heavy
burden of laws and false beliefs loaded on them. And another
verse announces the good news that those who obey these com-
mands will attain salvation:
… commanding them to do right and forbidding them
to do wrong, making good things lawful for them and
bad things forbidden for them, relieving them of their

heavy loads and the chains which were around them.
Those who believe in him and honor him and help him,
and follow the Light that has been sent down with him,
they are the ones who are successful. (Surat al-A'raf,
157)
The only person who can have freedom of thought is one
who has been released from his worldly chains, whose mind has
been cleansed and purified of ignorant ideas. Such a person is
not bound by what others think or the courses they pursue and
so, can make decisions of which Allah will approve. The reason
is that he keeps himself within the limits revealed in the Qur'an
as the proper measure for him. Besides this, as we have been
saying from this book's beginning, he doesn't care what people

say or think about him or about any opinion they may form. For
a person of faith, there is no way of living other than winning
Allah's favor and abiding by His commands. So devout Muslims

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