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A HISTORICAL LIE: THE STONE AGE

As a manifestation of this verse, all Muslims throughout history
have possessed the finest means of the age they lived in, and have
led pleasant lives. Naturally, some have been tested with difficulty
and troubles, but this does not suggest that they lived under diffi-
cult, primitive conditions and did not live civilized, humane lives.
No matter how wealthy, comfortable and advanced their civiliza-
tions might have been, those who have denied God and persisted in
their denial, who failed to live by proper moral values and brought
about corruption on Earth, have always ended up disappointed. In
addition, many of them have perhaps enjoyed more advanced tech-
nologies than those of present-day societies. This is also revealed in
the Qur'an:
Haven't they traveled
in the Earth and seen
the final fate of those
before them? They
had greater strength
than them and culti-
vated the land and in-
habited it in far

greater numbers than
they do. Their messen-
gers also came to them
with the clear signs.
God would never have
wronged them; but
they wronged them-
selves. (Qur'an, 30:9)

Madonna with Saints, by Giovanni Bellini, Venice, 1505

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