Page 17 - The Struggle of the Messengers

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) 15

A person who lives far removed from the moral values of the
Qur'an often forgets that human beings are created by Allah.
When people forget this, selfish ambition and passions begin to
present them with new false deities to foolishly serve, whether
animate or inanimate, besides the Creator Who "fashioned [him]
into a man" (Surat al-Kahf, 37). They seek to please those deities,
look to them for assistance, and start to love and fear them.
However, these self-made supposed deities are actually weak and

powerless "servants," just like themselves. Unable to use their
reason to see this truth, they follow them and ignorantly turn their
backs on Allah. This total lack of gratitude is described in the
Qur'an as follows:
Curse humanity for his ingratitude! From what thing did He
create him? From a drop of sperm He created him and
proportioned him. (Surah 'Abasa, 17-19)
Naturally, a society made up of such individuals is totally
oblivious of religious moral values and regards Allah as

"something to cast disdainfully" (Surah Hud, 92). Since all the
members of such an ignorant society possess the same moral
infirmity and weakness of mind, they develop a "herd
psychology" that strengthens most people's already existing
rejection of Allah. Since it knows nothing about Allah and the
hereafter, Allah calls it in the Qur'an an "ignorant society." No
matter how many brilliant people it has in physics, history,
biology, and other similar sciences, the great majority of the
members of such a society do not have the conscious intelligence
to recognize Allah.
Moreover, members of such an ignorant society adopt false
guides. Not knowing Allah properly, they follow other paths with