Page 17 - The Religion Of The Ignorant

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

being human. This religion definitely leaves no room for the behavior
and moral values described by Allah in the Qur'an. Indeed, the reli-
gion of the ignorant emerges and grows wherever people do not live
by the moral values of the Qur'an. People who are admired and re-
garded as prominent have learned this religion very well, and imple-
ment all its rules.
It's useful to emphasize the basic moral values recommended in
the Qur'an that totally conflict with the corrupt logic of Ignorantism. It
is revealed in the Qur'an that all people have a responsibility to Allah.
A human being is therefore charged with pleasing Allah alone, and
must not seek others' approval. A believer who lives by the moral val-
ues of the Qur'an thinks and lives according to these verses:
Is Allah not enough for His servant? Yet they try to scare you
with others apart from Him. (Surat az-Zumar, 36)
… your Lord is a sufficient guide and helper. (Surat al-
Furqan, 31)
A believer's entire life is directed towards being able to please
Allah. This is the core of religion. It is revealed in the Qur'an that the
characteristic of this true religion that has come down to the present
day from the Prophet Abraham (as), is the dedication of all one's life
to Allah:
Say: "My Lord has guided me to a straight path, a well-
founded, the religion of Abraham, a man of pure natural be-
lief. He was not one of the associaters." Say: "My prayer and
my rites, my living and my dying, are for Allah alone, the
Lord of all the worlds." (Surat al-An'am, 161-162)
Holding Allah's approval as the fundamental objective in life
doubtless alters one's relationships with others. As set out above, a
person has no mutual responsibility towards others. However, Allah

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