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do it too.” Say: “Allah does not command indecency.
Do you say things about Allah you do not know?”
(Surat al-A‘raf: 28)
As we can see, those who follow their ancestral religion
seek to hide the unseemly things they do behind Allah’s
name in order to legitimate their deeds.
2. Some people try to influence and cloud the minds of
anyone listening to a presentation of religion. These people
are called the ruling circle who did not believe. They use
their oppressive authority to confuse people and do what
they can to keep them from believing. The reason for this
is clear: believers, who are intelligent and aware, do not
accept the falsehoods to which they are subjected and,
most importantly, react against those who oppose reli-
gious morality and call upon them to justify their actions. It
is natural that if such a spirit were established in society,
the losers would be the ruling circle who did not believe.
Elsewhere we see that these people are part of satan’s
design, his squad that attacks believers with his prompt-
ings to help him attain his goal.
3. “The prominent individuals” who oppose what is said
about religious morality accuse a prophet or a messenger
of trying to gain prestige. This accusation has no relation to
the truth and is discussed in the chapter entitled
“Accusations against the Prophets and the Messengers.”
4. One of the sayings of unbelieving ruling circle is: “We
never heard of anything like this among our ancestors of
old.” However, the Qur’an shows just how attached they
are to their ancestral religion and how unwise this attach-