Page 23 - The Struggle of the Messengers

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revealed to be young people. Here are the relevant verses:
We will relate their story to you with truth. They were young
men who believed in their Lord, and We increased them in

guidance. We fortified their hearts when they stood up and
said: "Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and earth, and We
will not call on any deity apart from Him. We would, in that
case, have uttered an abomination. Our people have taken
deities apart from Him. Why do they not produce a clear
authority concerning them? Who could do greater wrong than
someone who invents a lie against Allah?" (Surat al-Kahf, 13-15)
But as we explained earlier, those people with such superior
moral values, who understand that their society has gone astray

and seek to rectify this by putting themselves under the
Messenger's guidance, are few in number.
As we saw above in the verses of Surat al-An'am about the
Prophet Abraham (as), many who do not believe in Allah's
Messenger respond to him with hostility. Some of the wealthy and
powerful are concerned that their own interests will be harmed
and are particularly hostile to the Messenger. It is to these arrogant

people who persist in their rejection of Him that Allah sends
Messengers. We earlier cited the verses concerning Allah's call to
the Prophet Moses (as). Allah said to the Prophet Moses (as):
Go to Pharaoh. He has overstepped the bounds. (Surah Ta Ha,
24)

The Leaders of Ignorant Society

In speaking of the society of ignorance in previous pages we
emphasized that the main feature of that society is that it fails to