Page 15 - Signs of the End Times in Surat Al-Kahf

HARUN YAHYA (ADNAN OKTAR)

In the End Times, people are totally removed from gratefulness.
Having forgotten that Allah gives all that they have, they are completely
absorbed in their worldly lives and consider all of their wealth and pos-
sessions to be the result of their own effort and mind. Such people have to
know that they are being ungrateful to Allah, because only He gives
everything. This reality is revealed in the following verses:
He has given you everything for which you have asked Him. If
you tried to number Allah's blessings, you could never count
them. Man is indeed wrongdoing, ungrateful. (Surah Ibrahim,
34)
Any blessing you have is from Allah. Then when harm touches
you, it is to Him that you cry for help. But when He removes the
harm from you, a group of you associate others with their Lord,
ungrateful for what We have given them. Enjoy yourselves. You
will soon know! (Surat an-Nahl, 53-55)
As these verses state, people do not realize that Allah gives them
everything and they deny this truth by associating others with Him.
Satan, who follows this strategy, seeks to push people away from thank-
fulness and toward ungratefulness for Allah's gifts so that they will begin
to deny this truth and then go astray. The Qur'an exposes Satan's wicked
strategy and real purpose, as follows:
[Satan said:] "Then I will come at them from in front of them and
behind them, from their right and from their left. You will not
find most of them thankful." He [Allah] said: "Get out of it, re-
viled and driven out. As for those who follow you, I will fill up
Hell with every one of you." (Surat al-A`raf, 17-18)
Naturally, there are consequences in this world for people's ungrate-
fulness. The fact of people's forgetfulness and ungratefulness is at the bot-
tom of all the poverty, destitution, decadence, deprivation, spiritual
decline and similar problems that we see all around us. While being grate-
ful opens up blessings, well-being, and peace, ungratefulness brings great
sorrow. Allah says:
And when your Lord announced: "If you are grateful, I will cer-

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