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receive negative reactions from the people surrounding them.
Furthermore, those who do not face such reactions should con-
sider this an amazing situation. Since new Muslims come from a
society that is divorced from the values of the true religion, peo-
ple who have until then surrounded them, as well as all their so-
ciety in general, has been following the wrong path, as the verse
below maintains:
Allah alone is qualified to judge. His order is to worship
none but Him. That is in truth the straight and upright re-
ligion, but most of mankind simply do not know. (Surah
Yusuf, 40)
Another verse reads:
That is Allah's promise. Allah does not break His prom-
ise. But most people do not know it. They know an out-
ward aspect of the life of the world, but are heedless of
the Hereafter. (Surat ar-Rum, 6-7)
A lack of faith, as the above verse maintains, stems from the
weakness of one's ability to think and understand. They only
know the outward aspect of the life of the world, and so fail to
grasp what is hidden. Meanwhile, they are entirely heedless of
the Hereafter. And so expecting the majority of the people to be
on the true path is a great mistake. In compliance with the verse
"But most people, for all your eagerness, are not believers,"
(Surah Yusuf, 103) the majority of the people would insist on fol-
lowing the wrong path.
In this case, believer must never adopt the thoughts of the
majority as a criteria. Indeed, Allah draws our attention to this
fact in the Qur'an, saying:
If you obeyed most of those on Earth, they would guide
you away from Allah's Way. They follow nothing but
conjecture. (Surat al-An'am, 116)

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