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morality of religion will be eliminated. When explaining how
easy it is to live by the religious morality, the errors of the
religious morality learned while one was ignorant of it must
be exposed, and any myths thought to be part of Islam
must be removed from the listener’s mind.

5. Religion liberates
The ignorant society thinks that religion is difficult,
oppressive, and restrictive. According to this erroneous
rationale, religion imposes certain restrictions upon people
and thus limits their freedom. Those who consider them-
selves as liberals in this society distance themselves from
religious morality as much as possible. They even engage
in a fight against the religion.
But the truth is otherwise. Religion brings freedom,
whereas the absence of religion brings oppression and
slavery.
In order to understand this truth, one must understand
human nature in its true sense. Allah makes the essence of
this matter in the Qur’an and explains in the Surat ash-
Shams that the spirit of human is of two sides:
By the Sun and its morning brightness, and the Moon
when it follows it, and the day when it displays it, and
the night when it conceals it, and the sky and what
erected it, and Earth and what extended it, and the
soul and what proportioned it and inspired it with
depravity or belief, he who purifies it has succeeded,
[whereas] he who covers it up has failed. (Surat ash-
Shams: 1-10)

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