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human being like yourselves, who eats what you eat and
drinks what you drink. If you were to obey a human being like
yourselves, you would, in that case, definitely be the losers.
Does he promise you that when you have died and become
dust and bones you will be brought forth again? What you
have been promised is sheer nonsense! What is there but our
life in this world? We die and we live, and we will not be raised
again. What is he but a man who has invented a lie against
Allah? We do not believe in him." (Surat al-Muminun, 33-38)

Such unbelieving leaders spread amazing propaganda against
the Messengers. They deny one of religion's most important
foundations: the existence of the hereafter. They do not admit that
they reject Allah, but foolishly portray the Messengers as
"inventors of lies in His name and exploiters of religion." This is
certainly terribly immoral and a total lie and slander. But some
people, who have lost the capacity to distinguish between right
and wrong from living far removed from religious moral values,
fall under the spell of this propaganda based on lies. But for

believers, albeit in few in number, upon whom Allah bestows
faith, these slanders, attacks and propaganda are all excellent
means whereby they love the Messenger even more, become more
genuinely attached to him and increase their religious fervor and
excitement. That is because each one of these phenomena takes
place as promised by Allah and is created as one of our Lord's
wise tests. Another irrational claim that unbelievers make is that
the Messengers are just normal people who eat and drink like
everyone else. Therefore, there is no advantage in following them.

But this is nonsense, because a Messenger is a human being who
lives like everyone else – the only difference is that Allah has