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Unbelievers Mock
Religion

The purpose of human life on earth is for all people to be a ser-
vant only to Allah, live by the morality that pleases Allah and to fol-
low the true path that is revealed in the Qur'an. Allah tells us: "I
only created jinn and humanity to worship Me" (Surat adh-
Dhariyat, 56). However, as we stated earlier, because of their inter-
nal "superiority complex," most people do not submit themselves to
Allah and avoid worshipping Him. However, they know perfectly
well what Allah requires of them. In the Qur'an, Allah refers to such
people, whose consciences understand the message but who, never-
theless, will not practice what is right because of their internal arro-
gance, as revealed in the Surat an-Naml:
When Our signs came to them in all their clarity, they said:
"This is downright magic." And they repudiated them
wrongly and haughtily, in spite of their own certainty
about them. See the final fate of the corrupters. (Surat an-
Naml, 13-14)
Given that they are troubled in their consciences, knowing and
seeing His existence and hearing about the true faith, these people
experience serious internal discomfort. They would like Allah and
His religion never to be mentioned and for everybody else to be like
them, because they believe that only then can they be at ease.