Page 53 - Islam: The Religion of Ease

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

angry, uncontrollable, vulgar, and very aggressive in a situation
in which he feels his interest is compromised. He doesn't know
how to be patient even about a small thing. In our current soci-
ety, people mostly have this kind of distorted morality. Because
the majority display similar attitudes, negative traits such as
selfishness, walking over people in order to protect one's own
interest, deceit, dishonesty, hypocrisy, lack of concern, scornful-
ness, arrogance, rudeness, jealousy, etc., are seen as quite nor-
mal, but are actually the inventions of ignorant people. In fact,
when anyone is defining himself he can list the most appalling
qualities, such as: "I am a very ambitious, jealous, and selfish
person," as if these unpleasant qualities were an important and
valuable part of his personality. As a result, the majority of peo-
ple accept themselves and each other with these negative quali-
ties.
In fact, the saying: "A person in his seventies is the same as
he was when he was seven" is used among the common people.
According to this misconception, it is acceptable for immoral
qualities, habits, and behavior to stay constant and never change
throughout a person's life.
However as we mentioned earlier, Allah has created hu-
mankind as innately religious. Naturally, it is human nature to
take pleasure in observing and upholding good morals. Other
ways are difficult and bring nothing but misery. A very impor-
tant Islamic scholar of our recent past, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi,
draws our attention to the ease of living a religious life and the
difficulty faithlessness brings to human life in his work titled,
"The Rays:"
"… the way of belief and the affirmation of Divine unity is ex-
tremely short, direct, straight, and easy. And the ways of unbelief

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