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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

were around them.” (Surat al-A‘raf: 157) and as the reli-
gion that “contains no difficulties in it”:
… He has selected you and not placed any constraint
upon you in the observance of your religion—the reli-
gion of your forefather Abraham In this, as in former
scriptures he named you Muslims… (Surat al-Hajj: 78)
In the Qur’an, Allah has summoned people to reflect and,
recognizing the erroneous beliefs and methods they hold, to turn
to the lifestyle deemed to be appropriate by Allah.
The society of ignorance, however, feigning not to see
the explicit and comprehensible message of the Qur’an,
has, in the name of Islam, fabricated a religion bogged
down in bigotry. Some of the characteristics of this dis-
torted religion are as follows:
- The religion introduced in the Qur’an summons peo-
ple to serve Allah alone and thus commands people not to
take other any entities as gods except for Him.
Accordingly, since he is not obliged to seek other people’s
pleasure, man is only responsible for seeking Allah’s ap-
proval. The people of the society of ignorance, however,
have developed an understanding of religion not as a way
to seek Allah’s pleasure but as a social institution. Owing
to this twisted perception, the religion that results has
lapsed into a form which is primarily concerned with
“what people would say,”—a way of thinking far re-
moved from the true morality of religion.
- . The conception of religion in the society of igno-
rance, which has no idea or comprehension regarding the
moral values of the Qur’an, is based on various supersti-
tious beliefs. Various local customs and beliefs and cul-

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