Page 45 - The Struggle Against the Religion of Irreligion

In the following section some of the attributes of false religion

will be outlined. It will be shown to be inclusive of distorted beliefs

held extensively under the name of religion. Unaccustomed to

thinking deeply, however, people often fail to notice the faults inherent

in those beliefs. It is an important responsibility for sincere believers

in Islam to warn people against humanly devised false religions and

convey to them the message of the Qur’an, which is the unique source

of wisdom that Allah sent down to guide His servants.

1. A false religion holds that God is in the sky.

Despite having faith in the existence of Allah, many people hold

extremely erroneous convictions about where He is. The materialistic

outlook on life accounts mainly for these convictions. Because the

materialist maintains that nothing really exists except matter, he

inevitably assumes that Allah has to be within the material universe

yet fails to imagine the kind of space He might inhabit.

The Qur’an relates that people of the same mentality existed in

the past. In order to see Allah the Pharaoh ordered a tower to be built

which would extend to the heavens. His erroneous belief was the

30 Cited in Darwin on Trial, p. 128.

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