Page 97 - The Debased Culture of Superficiality

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar 95

Similarly, it was fated for the driver to have that accident; this
was the will of Allah. That a person ignores this truth and
assumes a sad expression shows that he is associating His
creation with Allah. It is a sin to think that there is no good
purpose in calamities and illnesses, that illnesses are simply
caused by germs and ignore the fact that germs and viruses
were created by Allah as means to His ends. The behavior
caused by such ideas will be highly superficial and far from
the high moral quality that religion bestows.
In the Qur’an, Allah warns people of faith against such
shallow and superficial thinking and reminds them that it
can endanger their lives in the next world:
Among the people there is one who worships Allah right
on the edge. If good befalls him, he is content with it, but
if a trial befalls him, he reverts to his former ways, losing
both this world and the Hereafter. That is indeed sheer
loss. (Surat al-Hajj: 11)
This tendency can be present in the hearts of those who
have not yet come to faith. These people are careful to prac-
tice religious morality when they are surrounded with bless-
ings and their situation and environment are just as they
wish. Under such circumstances, they eagerly perform their
required acts of worship. But when the situation changes,
when Allah takes away some of their blessings as a test, these
people behave differently. Heaviness replaces their former
eagerness. Some of them may even fall into perverse think-
ing:
As for man, when his Lord tests him by honoring him
and favoring him, he says, “My Lord has honored me!”