Page 17 - Signs of the End Times in Surat Al-Kahf

HARUN YAHYA (ADNAN OKTAR)

tainly give you increase, but if you are ungrateful, My punish-
ment is severe." (Surah Ibrahim, 7)
As this verse reveals, people who do not thank Allah for what He gives
earn a severe punishment: sorrow in this world and in the Hereafter.
Past events can teach us many valuable lessons. In the twentieth cen-
tury, the world was ruled by anti-religious people, such as those who fol-
lowed communism and fascism, who distanced the people from true
religion's goodness by portraying denial as an attractive substitute. Their
followers denied Allah, and so forgot about thankfulness and encoun-
tered great tragedies over many long years. In return for their ungrateful-
ness, Allah withheld some of His gifts. The Qur'an reveals that the
"reward" for ungratefulness is the following:
Allah makes an example of a city that was safe and at peace, its
provision coming to it plentifully from every side. Then it
showed ingratitude for Allah's blessings, so He made it wear the
robes of hunger and fear for what it did. (Surat an-Nahl, 112)
The cause for the famine, poverty, fear, and suffering that we saw
during the twentieth century is the people's ungratefulness. The
Qur'an reveals that such people will be punished:
[By] that We repaid them, because they did not believe. And
[thus] do We repay except the ungrateful? (Surah Saba', 17)

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