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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) 15

been ungrateful to Allah and he feels that this will not be
left unanswered. A dreadful fear which he never experi-
enced before surrounds him, and he understands that
only Allah can save him from the situation he is in. Then,
he promises Allah to remain thankful and right and
always to remember this situation. He implores to Allah
earnestly to be saved from the danger he is in. He asks
just to be saved and to be given just one opportunity to
stay alive...
However, after surviving such a mortal danger, some

people do not remain true to their words and promises that
they previously gave to Allah. As soon as Allah saves such
a person, he returns to his former ways. The feelings of
regret and submission are replaced by feelings of ingrati-
tude. He forgets what he thought and realized at the
moment he faced death. With the confidence of having
overcome the danger, he turns away from Allah as if he
was not the one who experienced regret and earnestly
implored to Allah before. He resumes his life with even
more attachment to the world, as if he had not been in a
vulnerable situation a short while ago. In the Qur'an, sev-
eral examples depict the psychological state of such people:

It is He Who conveys you on both land and sea so that
when some of you are on a boat, running before a fair
wind, rejoicing at it, and then a violent squall comes
upon them and the waves come at them from every side