Page 57 - Character Types of the Unbelievers

Harun Yahya-Adnan Oktar
ony who are immersed in their own lives. Occasionally, they visit
their children on week-ends, but only stay for a few hours, which is
not enough to rescue them from the tedium of their lives.
Sometimes, they visit friends, among whom the topic of con-

versation is usually limited to their children and their illnesses. They
talk about the doctors they go to, the new treatments they are re-
ceiving and the medicines they take; and they give one another ad-
vice about health matters.
In spite of all the weakness and helplessness they encounter be-
cause of growing old, they maintain the kind of character and ex-
pectations that a society of ignorance has imposed on them and not

ponder upon the Hereafter. They have lived in an ignorant society
for years, and they see clearly that there is nothing to be gained, and
no happiness to be had from it. The fact that they are still firmly at-
tached to the world, even when death is so close, is a typical feature
of the character of an elderly person who lives in a society removed
from the morality of religion.
Also, these individuals are living in such an error that will
cause them great harm. What they must do is turn to Allah, the
Creator of all that exists. They may not have done this at an earlier

age, but from the moment they realize that they will be called to ac-
count before Allah, and that their death is near approaching, they
must advance awareness, and try to gain Allah’s pleasure by repent-
ing of their past lives. The lives they have lived until then, apart
from the morality of the Qur’an, their anxieties, illnesses and other
problems, must become the means for them to take heed.
In general, however, in the kind of ignorant society we have

been describing, the aged do not do so; on the contrary, they become

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