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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

book which had been conveyed to them by the Owner of that city
and everything else, as a guide. These people are called Muslim
in the Qur'an.
"Strive for Allah with the striving due to Him. He has se-
lected you and not placed any constraint upon you in the
religion – the religion of your forefather Abraham. He
named you Muslims before and also in this, so that the
Messenger could be witness against you and you could
be witnesses against all mankind. So perform prayer and
pay the alms and hold fast to Allah. He is your Protector
– the Best Protector, the Best Helper." (Surat Al-Hajj: 78)
"Who could say anything better than someone who sum-
mons to Allah and acts rightly and says, 'I am one of the
Muslims'?" (Surah Fussilat, 33)
There is a particular matter that needs to be drawn attention
to here : that is the fact that muslims are not well-liked by others.
We We had mentioned that the society of this city in the example
was a 'society of ignorance'. But, it does not mean that this soci-
ety is irreligious. On the contrary, people of the society of igno-
rance described in the Qur'an consider themselves supposedly
"very religious" people. However, the religion they are associ-
ated with is not the true religion. Theirs is a perverted conception
of religion left over from their forefathers, based on various su-
perstitious beliefs and myths, which they persist in most deter-
minedly and imagine to be true. This feature of the society of
ignorance is alluded to in the Qur'an as follows;
"When they are told to follow the Revelation that Allah
has sent down, they say: 'No, we shall follow the ways

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