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Harun Yahya 31

They believe they are on the right path
Taking the general population as an example, the most
salient characteristic of heedless individuals is their attempt to
persuade themselves that their thoughts and actions are jus-
tified. Believing that they are not harming others and that their
hearts are filled with goodness, they imagine that they
deserve what they have. However, Allah says something
rather different in the Qur’an:
Do they imagine that, in the wealth and children We
extend to them, We are hastening to them with good
things? No indeed, but they have no awareness! (Surat
al-Mu’minun: 55-56)
It is revealed in the Qur’an that such people believe that
they are on the right path, and so satan prevents them from
obeying Allah’s commands and prohibitions:
They debar them from the path, yet they still think they
are guided. (Surat az-Zukhruf: 37)
But your Lord knows best who is best guided on the
(right) Path. (Surat al-Isra’: 84)
Allah gives an instructive example of the state of such
individuals in the story of the vineyard owner. We are told in
the Qur’an of a conversation between two people, only one of
whom is aware:
Make an example for them of two men. To one of them
We gave two gardens of grapevines and surrounded
them with date palms, putting between them some cul-
tivated land. Both gardens yielded their crops and did
not suffer any loss, and We made a river flow right
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