Page 107 - The Religion Of The Ignorant

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

other, but has become an odd institution in which hundreds of igno-
rant customs and peculiar ceremonies are held, based on show and
calculations of self-interest and adorned with insincere and hypo-
critical behavior.
No matter what their cultural or social status, when it comes to
marriage, the fundamental logic, attitudes and psychology of mem-
bers of the Religion of the Ignorant are exactly the same in terms of
show, expectations and self-interest. They implement to the letter
the mentality revealed in the verse:
Know that the life of this world is merely a game and a di-
version and ostentation and a cause of boasting among
yourselves and trying to outdo one another in wealth and
children... (Surat al-Hadid, 20)
Indeed, since there is no place in Ignorantism for such concepts
as observing the approval of Allah, maintaining the bounds set by
Him and living in the manner He has set out, all that remains is the
path of Earthly desires, wants, passions and greed. Though the
forms and methods may change, the mentality remains the same.

After Marriage
The distorted mentality dealt with in the preceding pages per-
sists after the wedding. The bride and groom experience the first
pangs of regret when they see each other on the morning after the
wedding. Since they have generally not seen each other in that state
before, they already begin to repel one another. As they begin living
together in the same house, they witness each other's peculiar habits
and abnormalities of which they were hitherto unaware. The person
who was once so splendid in their eyes begins to lose value, and that
soon leads to cooler relations between them. As time passes, these
negative emotions they harbor towards one another increase. Since

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