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COMMUNISM'S HOSTILITY TO RELIGION

n the Qur'an, it is revealed that throughout history, cruel and
tyrannical leaders have arisen who have denied God and reli-
gion. In one verse (28: 41), God calls them "leaders summoning
to the fire." This kind of character typified by the person of
I Pharaoh in various accounts about Moses in the Qur'an. There
have been other cruel rulers who opposed Prophet Abraham and the
Companions of the Cave (a group of believers recounted in the Qur'an)
and who, just like Pharaoh, killed people simply for having faith in God.
It's possible to find these tyrannical characters in every era of history.
These leaders of irreligion have committed similar acts of cruelty against
their societies, used the same methods in trying to alienate people from
religion, and led the unwary to destruction in this world and the hereaf-
ter.
Looking at ideologies of the last century that have brought the most
trouble, pain, cruelty and brutality, we find merciless and irreligious
leaders at their head. Those 20th-century leaders who most resemble
Pharaoh as described in the Qur'an are the bloodthirsty, irreligious lead-
ers of the Russian and Chinese Revolutions, V Vladimir Lenin, Joseph
Stalin, Mao Tse-tung and the fathers of their ideas, Karl Marx and
Friedrich Engels. Charles Darwin exercised leadership in irreligion in
yet another way by his theory of evolution.