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so that they could continue to live by their selfish desires and
consider themselves to be free and unaccountable to Him.
However, people who accuse the messengers with mad-
ness and try to hurt and harm them with their tongues always
meet the same fate. Allah reveals what happened to Pharaoh
when he accused the Prophet Moses (as) of sorcery and mad-
ness:
But he turned away with his forces, exclaiming: “A magi-
cian or a madman!” So, We seized him and his armies
and hurled them into the sea. He was to blame. (Surat
adh-Dhariyat, 39-40)

Accused of Perverting Religion

The Qur'an also reveals that many messengers were
accused of perverting religion, which is a terrible slander by
unbelievers. Despite the fact that the unbelievers did not actu-
ally believe in Allah and the Hereafter, they tried to appear as
if they did, in order to deceive people in their own eyes, while
asserting that the messengers were, on the basis of their own
base mentalities, trying to damage people's beliefs by intro-
ducing false practices. The fact is, however, that messengers
are immaculate people who preach the moral values of the
true faith in the Sight of Allah and eliminate superstition and
other such false beliefs. The unbelievers did this with the
intent, in their own eyes, of depicting the messengers as
untrustworthy people seeking personal gain under the guise
of religiosity. But it is clear that none of these slanders, each
of which is a blatant lie, could never achieve any success.