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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

sisting solely of images for us, has been created merely as a test:

To mankind, the love of worldly appetites is painted in
glowing colors: women and children, and heaped-up
mounds of gold and silver, and horses with fine markings,
and livestock and fertile farmland. All that is merely the
enjoyment of the life of this world. The best homecoming
is in the Presence of Allah. (Surah Al ‘Imran, 14)

Know that the life of this world is merely a game and a di-
version and ostentation and a cause of boasting among
yourselves and trying to outdo one another in wealth and
children: like the plant-growth after rain which delights
the cultivators, but then it withers and you see it turning
yellow, and then it becomes broken stubble. In the
Hereafter, there is terrible punishment but also forgive-
ness from Allah and His good pleasure. The life of this
world is nothing but the enjoyment of delusion. (Surat al-
Hadid, 20)
The position of those who imagine that the life of this world is
the genuine one is revealed in the Qur’an:
But the actions of those who disbelieve are like a mirage in
the desert. A thirsty man thinks it is water but when he
reaches it, he finds it to be nothing at all, but he finds Allah
there. He will pay him his account in full. Allah is swift at
reckoning. (Surat an-Nur, 39)

When people understand that the things they imagine they
possess in this world are actually illusory, they will realize that
they have harbored sorrows and desires for nothing. They have
wasted their time and attached needless importance to material
wants and desires. They will realize that the people they imag-
ined to be so important are actually illusory entities and that
their pride is meaningless. They will understand that all

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