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THE RELIGION OF THE IGNORANT

in the darkness of the Earth, and nothing moist or dry
which is not in a Clear Book. (Surat al-An'am, 59)
[He is] the Knower of the Unseen and the Visible, the Most
Great, the High-Exalted. It makes no difference whether you
keep secret what you say or voice it out loud, whether you
hide in the night or go out in the day. (Surat ar-Ra'd, 9-10)
Another verse describes the error of adherents of the Religion
of the Ignorant thus:
Or do they imagine that We do not hear their secrets and
their private talk? On the contrary Our messengers are right
there with them writing it down! (Surat az-Zukhruf, 80)
Since members of Ignorantism do not fear Allah as they ought,
they try to distort the concepts of religious moral values in ways ap-
propriate to their own interests. Instead of the one described in the
Qur'an, they interpret the concept of being a Muslim in a distorted
way. However, this is a vain endeavor, and no matter what they
may be, the claims these people make or assert are invalid both in
this world and the Hereafter. For example, statements such as "I will
perform my daily prayers in due course. I do no harm to anyone. I
am not a murderer or a thief. I read, I have a good job, I am success-
ful. Why should I go to Hell?" have no place in Islam, but can fre-
quently be heard uttered by adherents of the Religion of the
Ignorant. These people think that being a Muslim consists of not
wronging anyone. They fail to understand that the foundation of the
true religion is unconditional obedience to Allah, and are deceiving
themselves. These people think that it is sufficient to please Allah by
giving small amounts of money to beggars or getting on well with
their neighbors, and seek to ignore hundreds of the stipulations of
the Qur'an. Sometimes they try to offer allegedly logical explana-

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