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EVER THOUGHT ABOUT THE TRUTH?

"... This is Allah your Lord; therefore serve Him you: will
you not receive admonition" (Surah Yunus: 3)
"Is He then Who creates like one who cannot create ? Will
you not receive admonition?" (Surat An-Nahl: 17)
Those who cannot think about religion independently of so-
ciety's conditioning will make two great mistakes. The first of
these is; a person who tries to keep himself away from the reli-
gious morality would not think about the real purpose of reli-
gion, about Allah and therefore would fail to appreciate the
infinite might of Allah.
The second fault is supposing that religion exists to drag
people to an awkward and bigoted position full of pressures, and
to impose duties on people, which go against their very nature.
Some certain people, who supposedly act in the name of religion,
promoting the aforementioned picture as if it were the religion it-
self, constitute one of the principal reasons behind the fear one
carries: "if I live by the religion, I cannot do what I want".. Where
as the truth of the matter is very much different from such a per-
son's convictions.
The moral values of Islam liberate one from all forms of
pressure, fear, worry and tension. They enable a person to have a
joyful, moderate, at peace and at ease state of mind. Someone
who genuinely abides by the Qur'an and the Sunna enjoys a
beauty and abundance that the person holding the prejudices
cited above can never attain and maybe never even dream of.
Once the individual rectifies the first mistake and gets to
know Allah, Who has created him and Who is the One closest to

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