Page 99 - Self-Sacrifice in the Qur'an's Moral Teachings

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

were given and were evildoers" (Surah Hud: 116). In another verse
Allah tells us that they had broken their promises:

Yet, they had previously made a contract with Allah that they
would never turn their backs. Contracts made with Allah will
be asked about. (Surat al-Ahzab: 15)
This situation applies to all times. Some people claiming to have
belief might avoid the responsibility of spreading the Qur'an's morality
when they come up against the slightest difficulty. Caught up in their
own transient worldly interests, they quickly return to thinking about
their own problems. Even though they know, like all intelligent indi-
viduals with a conscience, that they are responsible for preventing in-
justice, helping those in pain and those suffering from poverty and
oppression, and ending this oppression by showing people the true

path, such people think it more sensible to remain on the sidelines and
leave this responsibility to other believers.
Allah warns those who know what they should do but do not do
it: "Do you order people to devoutness and forget yourselves, when
you recite the Book? Will you not use your intellect?" (Surat al-
Baqara: 44).
Allah states that the good attitude will, Allah willing, lead a per-
son to salvation in this world and the Hereafter: "O you who believe.
Shall I direct you to a transaction that will save you from a painful
punishment? It is to believe in Allah and His messenger, and to strive
in the way of Allah with your wealth and your selves. That is better
for you if you only knew" (Surat as-Saff: 10-11). Allah reminds us that
this is better. People without real belief think that it is enough to accept

a bit of religion and sacrifice only when it is convenient for them.
In the same way, they may think that it would be better for them

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