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The Prophet Abraham (pbuh)
nal style to call his tribe to belief. Under divine inspiration, he
exposed the falsity of their pagan belief system and then re-
placed it, by His will, with a divine perspective based on
Allah's existence and belief in His superior power and might.
This wise method is an important model that all Muslims
should use when explaining religion's moral values. By reveal-
ing his tribe's pagan belief system as no more than a set of con-
tradictions and inconsistencies, he followed the wisest and
most effective mode of guiding his tribe to truth. Such an ap-
proach will, if Allah wills, help unbelievers see that their beliefs
rest on illogical and irrational foundations, after which they
may grasp religion's superior nature and understand that Allah
created the universe from nothing, possesses infinite
might and power, and
pervades all things.
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