Page 29 - The Struggle of the Messengers

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) 27

society's traditional norms. The message of Prophets and believers
thus impinge on unbelievers' interests.
Something else that upsets the society's leaders is that, despite
their power, respectability, and authority, a person who is not one
of them has been accepted and is now exposing their own

falsehoods and those of their system by his religious and moral way
of life. As we stated earlier, since they evaluate matters very
foolishly and think in a very distorted manner these leaders cannot
tolerate even the idea that a Messenger could get the better of them.
Given that Allah's Messengers are the wisest and morally the
purest individuals in the world, the leading unbelievers are
jealous of them and try to embarrass them in the eyes of society.
But it is in fact only themselves who end up embarrassed. For
example, the Meccan unbelievers leveled many false accusations
against our Prophet (saas), hoping that their mocking words and
insults would debase one so high in Allah's Sight in the believers'
eyes. But they failed, for such attempts only increased the

believers' zeal and strengthened their unity. Allah describes some
of the slanders uttered by these people:
Those who do not believe say: "This is nothing but a lie he has
invented, and other people have helped him to do it." They
have brought injustice and falsehood. They say: "It is myths of
previous peoples that he has had transcribed and that are read
out to him in the morning and the evening." Say: "The One
Who sent it down is He Who knows all of the hidden secrets in
the heavens and earth. He is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful."
(Surat al-Furqan, 4-6)

Another reason why the great majority of leaders react against
a Messenger is because according to their own distorted value