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Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

fulfilled with great precision. For instance, in one of his hadiths our
Prophet (saas) states the importance of the worship of praying as
follows:
"Prayer's situation in the religion is like the situation of head in
a body." [Tabarani, al-Mujam al-Saghir, 1/61]
In any case, the limits of and to what extent one should live by
the moral values of the Qur'an have been set out differently in the
Religion of the Ignorant to in the Qur'an. Such distorted rationale as:
"Religion is fine, but only up to a certain point. Everything has its
limits. One must not go to extremes. Too much of anything is not
good," can frequently be heard from the mouths of these people.
What these people with this distorted rationale mean by "too
much" religion is any sacrifice to be performed in its name. These
people are scrupulous with not being known for being alongside
Muslims, for not recalling the names of Allah with them, not engag-
ing in any activity for the sake of Allah and for not using their prop-
erty and assets on His path—or doing so only inasmuch as it does
not conflict with their interests. Those who implement only those as-
pects of the religious moral values that don't conflict with their own
interests are described in these terms in the Qur'an:
Among the people there is one who worships Allah right
on the edge. If good befalls him, he is content with it, but if
a trial befalls him, he reverts to his former ways, losing
both this world and the Hereafter. That is indeed sheer
loss. (Surat al-Hajj, 11)
The Islam described in the Qur'an, however, holds the approval
and love of Allah above all personal interests, whose only expecta-
tion is the Hereafter, which requires serious and honest endeavor in
His cause.
In Ignorantism, on the other hand, personal interests are usu-

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