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In the Name of Allah, The All-Merciful and Most Merciful

within the boundaries:
Those who repent, those who worship, those who praise,
those who fast, those who bow, those who prostrate, those
who command the right, those who forbid the wrong, and
those who preserve the limits of Allah: give good news to
the believers. (Surat at-Tawba, 112)

Some people who cannot understand the essence of reli-
gion can easily become fanatical by prohibiting what Allah
has not prohibited, and thereby assume that they are superi-
or to others. Allah has warned believers about this danger:

Say: “O People of the Book. Do not go to extremes in your
religion, asserting other than the truth, and do not follow
the whims and desires of people who were misguided
previously and have misguided many others, and are far
from the right way.” (Surat al-Ma’ida, 77)
Allah gives the example of some Christians who deviat-
ed from Jesus’ (pbuh) teachings:

Then We sent Our Messengers following in their foot-
steps and sent Jesus son of Mary after them, giving him
the Gospel. We put compassion and mercy in the hearts of
his followers. They invented monasticism – We did not
prescribe it for them – purely out of desire to gain Allah’s
pleasure. But even so, they did not observe it as it should
have been observed. To those of them who believed We
gave their reward, but many of them are deviators. (Surat
al-Hadid, 27)

As mentioned in the verse above, the people who made
the laws did not observe them properly. However, what a

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