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Adnan Oktar
Harun Yahya

The necessity of God's wrath on
unbelievers

The Avenger, one of the names of God, is misinterpreted or inten-
tionally distorted by some people. The wrath of God is only upon cru-
el people, hypocrites, those who commit fraud in the name of God and
furious unbelievers. To believers, on the other hand, God gives a sense
of full security and ease. In one verse of the Koran, God gives the news
that there will be no fear for those who believe, including Christians:

Those who have faith and those who are Jews and the Sabaeans
and the Christians, all who have faith in God and the Last Day
and act rightly will feel no fear and will know no sorrow. (Koran,
5:69)

A person remains immune from God's wrath as long as he serves
God and strives to earn His good pleasure. God takes revenge only on
those who are cruel. This is the law of God. A human is in deep fear of
God's wrath only when he acts wrongly. However, when he engages
in good deeds and strives to earn God's good pleasure, he trusts in
God and his conscience remains at ease.
The attribute of God described in the title the Avenger is a great
blessing for believers. For instance, seeing that a person who mistreats
a little girl and then murders her is punished in the hereafter and thus
seeing the manifestation of God's justice is a great blessing for a be-
liever. This repayment a cruel person receives in the hereafter is also a
great blessing for the child who was mistreated. That is why,
in the same way that paradise is a blessing for believers, so
hell is where cruel people are punished. Both paradise and
hell are the places where God's infinite justice is manifested
in the hereafter. Those who strive to oppress prophets, those
who betrayed Jesus
(pbuh), or murdered in-

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