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Harun Yahya 9

want. Their greatest worries are that their efforts be in vain
and that they will lose what they already have.
However, this short life and everything pertaining to it will
one day come to an end. Unaware of the eternal punishment
awaiting all those who lived their lives without making any
attempt to please Allah, they head toward the Day of
Judgment—a day of great fear and distress for them. But they
continue to desire the world’s transitory allurements and
worry only about losing them.
This unconscious, insensible, and uninterested attitude,
which they insist upon following despite His clear evidences,
commands, and warnings, is known as “unawareness.”
Allah has created blessings, including their own bodies
and many beautiful things wherever they may look, to remind
human beings of His existence. At every moment and in every
place, we see that creation is imbued with countless wonders:
In the creation of the heavens and Earth, and the alter-
nation of the night and day, and the ships that sail the
seas to people’s benefit, and the water that Allah sends
down from the sky–by which He brings the ground to life
when it was dead and scatters about in it creatures of
every kind–and the varying direction of the winds, and
the clouds subservient between heaven and Earth, there
are Signs for people who use their intellect. (Surat al-
Baqara: 164)
Think of everything that happens and everything you see
while you are awake. When you get up and look in the mirror,
you see your body regenerated after a long sleep and notice
how it continues to function perfectly without your interfer-
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