Page 81 - Character Types of the Unbelievers

Harun Yahya-Adnan Oktar
to perceive doctors as beings with superhuman powers (surely Allah
is beyond that). For this reason, they feel ignorantly that they are of
less value than doctors and that, as we said before, doctors are their
only hope for recovering from an illness. However, Allah warns

human beings that they are only servants:
Those you call on besides Allah are servants just like your-
selves. Call on them and let them respond to you if you are
telling the truth. (Surat al-A‘raf, 194)
Of course, it is right for a person to go to a doctor and follow his
advice. But, in doing this, that person must not forget that it is Allah
Who restores them to health. It is only He Who knows where and

when an individual will die. Allah has set the time of everyone’s death
and all people approach that day without knowing when it will come.
Many people make the great error of ignoring this reality; they forget
to pray to Allah and look to their doctors for help. And because so
much is expected of them, doctors, who are far removed from the
morality of the religion, develop certain arrogance.
The difference between how some doctors act in their private of-
fices and how they behave while working in a hospital well illustrates
the distorted values of ignorant society. Because the office is private,

the patients that come there are usually well-off. An ignorant person’s
love of money requires him to act politely to those who are financially
comfortable and some doctors are overly polite to those who come to
their offices. The patient who comes to the doctor’s office has chosen
him and if that patient does not like the treatment he gets, he may pay
his bill and go to another doctor.
There is another aspect to this discussion; doctors’ attitude to

those patients who have no money. In a society of ignorance it is ac-

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