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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

cerns old people and stands up for some correct ethical values,
but mostly entails many "boring", tedious prohibitions and re-
strictions. He finds some religious practices right and necessary
and considers, in his shallow mind, certain others as ancient and
"outdated". (Surely Allah and Islam are beyond that.) Still, he
usually does not openly deny religionbut he tries, as we have
mentioned before, to keep away from the moral values of the re-
ligion as far as possible. He is always reluctant to meet, speak to
or be in the same places as people he considers religious.
According to that prejudiced and distorted perspective, such
people are frightening and sinister. But the fact is that he is in a
terrible state of error. Islam is a religion that requires one to have
a sense of aesthetic, quality, nobility, kindness, beauty, love, sin-
cerity, compassion and warmth. Islam urges people to think, re-
search and to be rational and bestows superiority on those who
genuinely live by these values.
This wrong perception of religion originates from accepting
presuppositions imposed by some part of society without sub-
jecting them to independent scrutiny. In the Qur'an, the ultimate
ethical guidebook, the importance of thinking is revealed by
Allah in many verses as follows:
"Say: 'To whom belong the earth and all beings therein?
Say, if you know!' They will say, 'To Allah!' Say: 'Yet will
you not receive admonition?'" (Surat Al-Muminun: 84-
85)
"And We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to under-
stand and remember: then is there any that will receive
admonition?" (Surat Al-Qamar: 17)

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