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the realisation that life is too complex to have ever originated by chance,

they can only keep silent and change the subject.
This situation shows that there exist prejudices that cause these peo-
ple to commit themselves to materialism, and its natural outcome, atheism.
Their denial of the existence of Allah comes not of evaluating concrete
facts from an objective point of view, but rather in spite of those concrete
facts.
Moreover, they try to impose their denial on the public at large.

AUTHORS OF "EVIL PLOTS"
The organised propaganda against faith in Allah indicates that these
movements are manipulated from specific centres. In other words, there
are a number of power centres that make a considerable effort to break
down the religious beliefs of the community. Not surprisingly, Allah has
called attention to these groups in the Qur'an. In one verse, a group of
people punished by hell-fire in the hereafter call out to their leaders who
have led them astray in the world, and say:
Nay! it was a plot (of yours) by day and by night: Behold! You (con-
stantly) ordered us to be ungrateful to Allah and to attribute equals to
Him! (Surah Saba, 33)

These groups who, by hatching evil plots, order others to be ungrate-
ful to Allah have made an appearance in every period of history under dif-
ferent names and guises. Their basic characteristics have nonetheless always
been the same. Allah has described them in the Qur'an as "the luxurious
ones" (Surat al-Mumenoon, 64) or "the leaders of the arrogant party among
their people" (Surat al-Araf, 75), which means that these people are those
who are supremely privileged in material terms, who enjoy prestige in soci-
ety and who display arrogance and haughtiness because of their posses-
sions. Regarding religion as a threat to the concessions they have snatched
with injustice and oppression, they want to eliminate it. This is why they
fabricate "evil plots" in order to lead their community to apostasy.
Of course there cannot be a single definition of such organised pow-
ers. They assume different identities and forms in different societies. When,

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