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2. Defenders of disbelief follow the religion of their

predecessors.

It seems incomprehensible that tyrants who carry out pitiless

massacres against thousands of people including women and children

are followed by so many; however, it is not only true of our own age.

In the Qur’an there is extensive mention of societies refusing to give

up perverted beliefs, which they referred to as "the religion of our

ancestors." Every time disbelievers were invited to the religion of

Allah, they responded to the messengers by saying that they could not

abandon their previous practices since their ancestors had observed

them. One passage states:

And when it is said to them, 'Follow what Allah has

revealed', they say, 'Rather, we will follow what we found

our fathers doing.' Even though their fathers understood

nothing, nor were they guided? The example of those who

disbelieve is like that of one who shouts at what he hears

nothing but calls and cries [i.e., cattle or sheep] – deaf,

dumb and blind, so they do not understand. 51

The situation of modern disbelievers who reject every kind of

religious and moral value is accurately depicted in the verses above.

The religions they follow are, in fact, religions of irreligion. Indeed, the

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