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true." But he replies: "This is nothing but the myths of pre-
vious peoples." (Surat al-Ahqaf, 17)
In the Qur'an Allah also reveals the best way to answer the
heedless and illogical questions of unbelievers, who admire their
own senseless minds and are confident of their own perverted intel-
ligence:
Doesn't man see that We created him from a drop yet there
he is, an open antagonist! He makes likenesses of Us and
forgets his own Creation, asking: "Who will give life to
bones when they are decayed?" Say: "He Who made them
in the first place will bring them back to life. He has total
knowledge of each created thing." (Surah Ya Sin, 77-79)
Allah created all human beings, as well as all living and non-
living things in existence. People are responsible for living by the
morality that He has revealed to them through His messengers and
prophets. Given this, there is no way that they can absolve them-
selves of not fulfilling this responsibility. If they choose to reject it,
however, they will definitely be punished on the Day of Judgment.
We have to add here that mocking Allah's signs and His religion is a
grave sin, and that there is no doubt that the punishment for it will
be very serious:
Abandon those who have turned their religion into a game
and a diversion, and who have been deluded by the life of
this world. Remind by it [the Qur'an], lest a person be de-
livered up to destruction for what he has earned with no
protector or intercessor besides Allah. Were he to offer
every kind of compensation, it would not be accepted. Such
people are delivered up to destruction for what they have
earned. They will have scalding water to drink and a