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- > If someone denies Allah, if he does not believe in
Creation and is reluctant to believe that this world will come to an
end and that he will be recreated with death and exist for all
eternity, if he thinks that all he has belongs to this world, then
this person will have a frightening and terrifying wait. He seeks to
give the impression he is unaware of this. He will maintain that his
purpose is to enjoy the things of this world. He will say he never
thinks about tomorrow and lives only for the moment. Yet
subconsciously he is still worried about "ceasing to exist." The life
of this world, which he believesin as an absolute entity, will
increasingly abandon him. Death is approaching. And after death,
according to his own superstitious belief,there is only non-existence.
This really terrifies that person.
The terror of someone who denies Allah is not limited to the fear of
ceasing to exist. Everything is equally terrifying for someone who
denies Creation, imagines that everything came into being
spontaneously and that the universe and he himself are both entirely
haphazard. Under his feet there is a thin crust over boiling magma,
while the Earth revolves at great speed in the vastness of space. If
everything were a coincidence, as he believes, then a meteor would
inevitably one day collide with the Earth, and the Earth would be
shattered in a moment with gigantic tremors. Any of the billions of
delicate balances that make the Earth hospitable to life could
similarly be eliminated. Therefore, just about everything represents a
threat and source of anxiety for such a person. The heart he believes
beats by chance, the veins he believes carry nutrients to the body by
chance and the eyes he believes see by chance are all in danger at
every moment.
These are the people who, as stated in a verse,believe that the life
of this world is all they possess: "What is there but our life in the
dunya? We die and we live and we will not be raised again." (Surat
al-Muminun, 37)
The aim behind such people's denial is to make the greatest use ofthe
life of this world, no matter how great their fear and terror.
Therefore, one would expect such a person to do all he can and use all
the means at his disposalto remain, in his own eyes at least, in this
world he imagines to be a random one, to strive to that end alone. But
that is not what happens. The great majority of such people MOBILIZE
ALL THEIR MEANS TO OPPOSE MUSLIMS, and not to stay alive or to enjoy
earthly pleasures. This is an astonishing state of affairs. It is
amazing how they expend all the power, money and means they would
appear to acquire in the life of this world, in short, everything
given them by Allah, SOLELY in order to oppose Him andHis religion and
to weaken and inflict suffering on Muslims, in their own eyes at
least.
Our Almighty Lord has revealed this in verses:
When We let people taste mercy after hardship has afflicted them,
immediately they plot against Our signs. Say: "Allah is swifter at
plotting." Your plotting is recorded by Our Messengers. (Surah Yunus,
21)
When unbelievers, who see and appreciate the might of Allah in times
ofdifficulty, attain well-being they imagine that the mercy bestowedon
them from His own Grace by Allah is actually theirs, and they then
stupidly direct all their energies to striving against Muslims in the
belief that their power and well-being belong to them. Allah creates
these people specially in order to test Muslims. Their Creation in
this way is one of the greatest proofs of the existence of Allah.
Almighty Allah Has Spoken of this Attitude of Unbelievers in Verses
Almighty Allah reveals in the Qur'an how some unbelievers unwilling to
live by the moral values of the Qur'an will use all their power to
strive against Him and Muslims.Some of these verses read:
When those who are unbelievers were plotting against you to imprison
you or kill you or expel you: they were plotting and Allah was
plotting, but Allah is the Best of Plotters. (Surat al-Anfal, 30)
Allah desires to turn towards you, but those who pursue their lower
appetites desire to makeyou deviate completely. (Surat an-Nisa', 27)
Those who prefer the life of this world to the Hereafter, and bar
accessto the way of Allah, wanting to make it crooked; they are
greatly misguided. (Surah Ibrahim, 3)
There was a group of nine men in the city causing corruption in the
land and not puttingthings right. They said, 'Let us make an oath to
one another by Allah that we will fall on him and his family in the
night and then say to hisprotector, "We did not witness the
destruction of his family and we are telling the truth."' They hatched
a plot and We hatched a plot while they were not aware. (Surat
an-Naml, 48-50)
They swore by Allah withtheir most earnest oaths that if a warner came
to them they would be better guided than any other community. But then
when a warner did come to them, it only increased their aversion,shown
by their arrogance in the land and evil plotting. But evilplotting
envelops only those who do it. Do they expect anything but the pattern
of previous peoples? You will not find any changing in thepattern of
Allah. You will not find any alteration in the pattern of Allah.
(Surah Fatir, 42-43)
You who believe! do not take any outside yourselves as intimates. They
will do anything to harm you. They love what causes you
distress.Hatred has appeared outof their mouths, but what their
breasts hide is far worse. We have made the signs clear to you if you
use your intellect. There you are, loving them when they do not love
you, even though you believe in allthe Books. When they meet you, they
say, 'We believe.' But when they leave they bite their fingers out of
rage against you. Say, 'Die in your rage.' Allah knows what your
hearts contain. If something good happens to you, it galls them. If
something bad strikes you, they rejoice at it. But if you are
steadfast and have taqwa, their scheming will not harm you in any way.
Allah encompasses what they do. (Surah Al 'Imr'an, 118-120)
Among people there is one who argues about Allah without knowledge or
guidance or any light-giving Book,turning away arrogantly, to misguide
people from the Way of Allah. He will be disgraced in this world and
on the Day of Resurection We will make him taste the punishment of the
Burning. (Surat al-Hajj, 8-9)
Do you not see that Allahhas subjected to you everything in the
heavens and earth and has showered His blessings upon you,
bothoutwardly and inwardly? Yet there are people who argue aboutAllah
without knowledge or guidance or any illuminating Book. (Surat
al-Luqman, 20)
... The demons inspire their friends to dispute with you. If you
obeyed them you would then beassociaters. (Surat al-An'am, 121)
The people of Noah denied the truth before them, and the
Confederates after them.Every nation planned to seize its Messenger
and used false arguments to rebut the truth. So I seized them, and how
was My retribution! (Surat al-Ghafir, 5)
Those who argue about the signs of Allah without any authority coming
to them do something hateful in thesight of Allah and in the sight of
the people who believe.That is how Allahseals up the heart of every
arrogant oppressor. (Surat al-Ghafir, 35)
Unbelievers Never Take Any Pleasure from the Transitory Joys of This World
Our Almighty Lord reveals in the Qur'an that He has created the life
of this world as a bauble, a temporary abode, a short-term benefit, a
thing of distraction. People who imagine the life in this world alone,
denying Allah and the Hereafter, may initially appear to enjoy the
adornments and transitory pleasures of the life of this world and to
live the life of thisworld in the delight and happiness they desire.
The truth is very different, however.
This world is a very frightening and terrifying place for people who
deny Allah for the sake of living the life of this world moment by
moment. These people life with the anxiety of ceasing toexist at any
moment of every day. Even a dead fly reminds them of the death that
will inevitablybe coming their way. Death is the worst terror for
them. Because this world, which they imagine to be all they possess,
will be taken from them and not a trace will remain of theirown
existence. How can a person possessed of such knowledge possiblyenjoy
the moment he is living? Of course, he cannot.
Someone who thinks he will cease to exist is in fact caused great
uneaseby everything he should enjoy in this world. Even if he has tons
of gold, possessing and spendingit will definitely cause him huge pain
and trouble. Everything, listening to music, eating, spending time in
places of entertainment. Going on holiday, traveling, spending time in
a restaurant with friends, getting married,buying a car or a house or
land, in short all the blessings he possesses inthis world, will
inevitably make him unhappy. Since he believes he came into being by
chance and is uncontrolled he will feel unbelievable unease
andanxiety. Worrying about ceasing to exist is worse than all other
concerns. To think for a single moment that he will cease to exist is
enough for all his happiness to fly away. The moment heis living and
his very life will have no meaning. That will cause all the things he
believes will make him happy to anger him instead. Musicwill annoy
him, and places of entertainment and accumulating possessions. Getting
in a car he brought to show off to other people with,looking at a
lovely view, his home, the decorations in that home, and even his
wife,children and other relatives will all become things that annoy
and upset him. That moment of oblivion that he believes in draws
closer by the second. Every passing day therefore inflicts greater
fear, anxiety and anger on him.
Our Almighty Lord describes in a verse how unbelievers are actually
very troubled as they consume the delights of this world:
When Allah desires to guide someone, He expands his breast to Islam.
When He desires to misguide someone, He makes his breast narrow and
constricted as if he were climbing up into the sky. That is how Allah
defiles those who have no faith. (Surat al-An'am, 125)
In another verse, our Lord reveals that because of these people's fear
and anxiety these people experience a taste of thetorments of Hell in
this world:
They say, 'When will this promise be fulfilled if you are telling the
truth?' Say: 'It may well be that some of what you are anxious to
hasten is right on your heels.' (Surat an-Naml, 71-72)
Pleasure and happiness are only possible with love of Allah. A person
can only enjoy music, other people, flowers, a delightful view, the
environment he lives in, entertainments, friendships, shopping and
conversation with the joy of faith. In order for these to be able to
give one any pleasure, one first has to be at peace, with an easy
conscience. It is impossible for someone whose heart and conscience
are not at ease to be genuinely happy and take pleasurefrom anything.
But someone who knows the joy of faith, who loves and fears Allah
andknows that every moment of his life is a blessing from Allah can be
at peace and have an easy conscience before Allah.
In fact, everyone possesses this awareness. Everyone, unbelievers
included, is well aware that he must behave according to his
conscience. Almighty Allah inspires the voice of their conscience in
people. But since these people fail to choose theright course despite
the promptings of their consciences they can never achieve inner peace
and happiness. Onthe contrary, everything that happens to them always
represents fear, anxiety, stress and sorrow.
The Way That Unbelievers Who Spend the Life of This World in Fear Find
the Strength toStrive against Allah and Muslims Is a Miracle
As can be seen from verse 21 of Surah Yunus, quoted above,
unbelievers, to whom allkinds of blessings are given, at once strive
to establish an order against the verses of Allah and to weaken
Muslims, at least in their own eyes. As can be seenfrom other verses,
these unbelievers engage in a great and wide-ranging struggle against
the truth. As revealed in the verse "Those who are unbelivers spend
their wealth barring access to the Way of Allah. They will spend it"
(Surat al-Anfal, 36) , instead of pursuing pleasures as they intend,
they use all their material and psychological means against Muslims.
They have no hesitation about using their most valued earthly means
and possessions to, they imagine at least, inflict defeat on Muslims
and prevent Qur'anic moral values ruling the world. Although they
imagine that the life of this worldis all they have, they have no
problem with spending all their time on setting traps for Muslims and
plotting against them. They put all their energies into plotting evil
against Muslims. And this is truly a very great miracle.
Someone who strives against the moral values of the Qur'an should not
have the strength to do all this. The anxiety over ceasing to exist
one day should never give him a moment's peace in this limited life he
leads. And since he is constantly in this state of anxiety he should
not bother tryingto strive against Muslims.One would expect, since
this person has no faith and does not believe in the Hereafter, does
not trust in and rely on Allah and lives in a constant state of fear
and anxiety,that he would regard hisown life as very valuable. One
would therefore expect him to be terrified of death. He should not
expend the earthly means, which are all he possesses, his money and
the rest, on trying to weaken Muslims, lose time over plotting or
waste energyon such things. One would expect such a person to numb his
mindand devote himself to enjoyment and spend the rest of his time on
earthly pleasures. But they do not.
Because Allah has created them specially inorder to strive against
Muslims. This is their taskin destiny. The way that despite all their
fears, these people spend all their worldly means on opposing Allah
and His supporters, and seek, even though they are so terrified of
death, to eliminate Muslims instead, is clear proof of their special
Creation by Allah as a form of test. Asthis verse makes clear, asa
requirement of this special Creation, setting traps for Muslims is
made to seem highly attractive to these people:
... However, the plotting of those who are unbelievers seems good to
them and they bar theway. Anyone misguided by Allah has no guide.
(Surat ar-Ra'd, 33)
Even if the Unbelievers' Plots Were Great Enoughto Move Mountains,
TheyWould Still be Thwarted
They concocted their plots, but their plots were with Allah, even if
they were such as to make the mountains vanish. (Surah Ibrahim, 46)
According to the law of Almighty Allah, true believers and friends of
Allah are always strong and superior. One of the greatest secrets of
whichunbelievers are ignorantis that they will never beable to defeat
the supporters of Allah. That is why these people will never be able
to escape the troubles awaiting them, no matter what plans or
strategies they employ. Allah has of course surrounded and enfolded
them. Of coursethey are powerless in the face of our Almighty Lord,
the Omnipotent. Muslims will definitely be rewarded for their efforts
on the path of Allah. Almighty Allah reveals in verses:
Do those who plot evil actions feel secure that Allah will not cause
the earth to swallow them up or that a punishment will not come upon
themfrom where they least expect? Or that He will not seize them on
their travels, something they are powerless to prevent? Or that He
will not seize them little by little? For your Lord is
All-Compassionate, Most Merciful. (Surat an-Nahl, 45-47)
Or do those who perpetrate evil deeds suppose that We will make them
like those who have iman and do right actions, so that their lives and
deaths will be the same? How bad their judgment is! (Surat
al-Jathiyya, 21)
And Allah imparts these glad tidings to true Muslims:
Be patient. But your patience is only by Allah. Do not be grieved by
them and do not be constricted by the plots they hatch. Allah is with
those who fear [and respect] Him and with those who are good-doers.
(Surat an-Nahl, 127-128)
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