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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

ond time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the
poor and the alien. I am the Lord, God. (Leviticus, 19: 10)
" 'When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very
edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave
them for the poor and the alien. I am the Lord, God.' "...
(Leviticus, 23: 22)
Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the
poor wanderer with shelter – when you see the naked, to clothe
him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
(Isaiah, 58: 7)
He does not oppress anyone, but returns what he took in pledge
for a loan. He does not commit robbery but gives his food to the
hungry and provides clothing for the naked. (Ezekiel, 18: 7)

Practicing What You Preach

Believers encourage others to live a life of which Allah
approves and help them improve themselves. They advise
them to win Allah's good pleasure, whereas insincere and
hypocritical people do so with profit in mind. They do not
seek to serve Allah's religion with what they do, but pursue
worthless or evil aims like status, reputation, admiration, or

respectability.
Allah warns such insincere people in the Qur'an, as fol-
lows:
Do you order people to devoutness and forget your-
selves, when you recite the Book? Will you not use your
intellect? (Surat Al-Baqara: 44)

The Gospel severely reprimands people who claim to

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