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Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

they are a part of ascribes partners to Allah, they are indignant.
Nevertheless, no matter how much those who ascribe partners to
Allah seek to exonerate themselves, Allah's stipulation is irrefutable.
The situation of the idolaters is revealed as follows in the Qur'an:
Allah does not forgive anything being associated with Him
but He forgives whoever He wills for anything other than
that. Anyone who associates something with Allah has
gone very far astray. (Surat an-Nisa', 116)
The false book of Ignorantism is the collection of rules consist-
ing of the culture inherited from their forebears and the conditions
prevailing at that time. For that reason, the Qur'an is unwisely not
regarded as a guide. For that reason, the Qur'an is often not read. It
is often occasions such as funerals where the Qur'an is read. This
means the Qur'an being kept as far removed as possible from peo-
ple's lives by a cunning and devilish ruse. Allah relates the follow-
ing regarding the situation of such people in the Qur'an:
The messenger says, "My Lord, my people treat this Qur'an
as something to be ignored." (Surat al-Furqan, 30)
Afterwards, people live by false standards other than the reli-
gion communicated by Allah, such as false principles and bizarre
rules of society, the way they are brought up and second-hand
knowledge. Yet Allah addresses those who adopt a system incom-
patible with the Qur'an and who nevertheless still imagine them-
selves to be Muslims thus:
What is the matter with you? On what basis do you judge?
Or do you have a Book which you study, so that you may
have anything in it you choose? Or do you have oaths
which bind Us, extending to the Day of Resurrection, that
you will have whatever you decide? (Surat al-Qalam, 36-39)
Instead of the religion chosen by Allah, members of the

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