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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

forefathers, rather than the implementation of the Qur'an and the
Sunna, is certainly not true Islam.
Today, the existence of a great many people who are re-
garded as devout in various societies although they do not know
much about the Qur'an and the Sunna of our Prophet (may Allah
bless him and grant him peace), shows us how the situation has
deteriorated. Religion may continue to be a supersitious heritage
from our forefathers for these people, but it would be a mistake
to hope for it to have any value in the Sight of Allah, unless He so
wills. In many societies where people are either Buddhists or
idolaters who live in an African clan and worship totems, they
do what they do simply as a matter of tradition. Therefore, none
of their practices amount to true religion. For most of the people
following one of those "religions," the aim is not to seek the pleas-
ure of Allah but, to try to live in conformity with society, for most
of the time for a number of people in satisfying their nostalgia by
keeping their traditions alive and deriving some personal inter-
est from their religion.
The approval of Allah is the essence of the religion revealed
in the Qur'an. A Muslim must base himself on that. The subject is
set out in a verse as follows:
Who is better: someone who founds his building on
taqwa of Allah and His good pleasure, or someone who
founds his building on the brink of a crumbling precipice
so that it collapses with him into the Fire of hell? Allah
does not love wrongdoers. (Surat At-Tawba, 109)
As can be seen from this verse a faith that is not constructed
on Allah's approval may lead to terrible consequences, since the
conception, religion founded on, is unacceptable.

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