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CONCLUSION

M asonry has been one of most interesting phenomena of
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the past two centuries. Naturally, it has attracted atten-
tion because of its closed, reserved and mystical charac-
ter. At the same time, an antipathy to Masonry has
arisen; it attempts to advertise itself as a "harmless charitable institution,"
while a determined opposition to Masonry has grown as a result of the
contradictory claims of the organization.
However, what must be done in order to oppose Masonry is not to

adopt a blind anti-Masonic agenda, but to discern and show the invalidity
of the perverse philosophy that this organization espouses and imposes
on humanity.
The great Islamic scholar Bediuzzaman Said Nursi describes in one
paragraph the main outline of such a duty:
A tyrannical current born of Naturalist and Materialist philosophy will
gradually become strong and spread at the end of time by means of ma-
terialist philosophy, reaching such a degree that it denies God… 141
In other words, the current of materialist ideas that will emerge in the
end times will go so far as to deny the existence of Allah. In response, it

must be shown what a great and irrational deception this is, and the

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