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Adnan Oktar 13

their courses, and has made the night and day sub-
servient to you. He has given you everything you have
asked Him for. If you tried to number Allah’s blessings,
you could never count them. Humanity is indeed
wrongdoing, ungrateful. (Surah Ibrahim: 32-34)
If you tried to number Allah’s blessings, you could
never count them. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. (Surat an-Nahl: 18)
Just one of these blessings delights the human spirit.
Therefore, it is certainly unusual if someone who lives amid
these beautiful things cannot notice them or be delighted
by them. This is a great loss. Obviously, such people have
tasted and consumed all of the delights of this life and now
find them boring.
It is a great contradiction that those who make lame
excuses to avoid religion want to see this world as a place
in which they can laugh and enjoy themselves. Their great-
est aim is to taste as many pleasures as they can. This uni-
versal law has remained unchanged throughout the ages.
Some of those who do not understand life’s real meaning
have developed philosophies based on this world’s pleas-
ures and have praised those who try to “make the most of
a day.”
Horace (65-8 BC), the famous Roman lyric poet, said
carpe diem (seize the day). This phrase, prevalent since the
seventeenth century, sums up a philosophy of life based
only on this world’s life. In short, it means that a person
should not think about tomorrow, but live in the moment
and make the most of each day, that they should not con-

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