We hear about some ignorant and idiotic people who are quite unaware of Islam’s beautiful ethical principles and human rights. They are wasting their lives at sports fields, beaches during the days and at places of amusement, indulging in luxuries, debaucheries and indecencies with girls and boys, or in music, gambling and alcohol, at nights. They are obtaining the money they need for their pleasures, completely disignoring the legitimacy of their earnings. With this eccentric, fraudulent and outrageous conduct of theirs, they harm not only themselves but also society, people, their lives and chastities. In their terminology irreligiousness and atheism are ‘progressive attitudes’ and ‘young people’s modernism’. They say that theirs is a way of life that a wise person would normally prefer. They boast about their behaviour and suppose that they are imitating Europeans and Americans by doing so. They stigmatize true and honest Muslims, who possess faith, belief and pure morals and who observe others’ rights, as bigots and fanatics. Thus they lull themselves into a false sense of self-complacency. Are all those Europeans and Americans unwise to be devoted to their religious beliefs and is being wise a characteristic peculiar to these people alone?
They do not realize that they are heading for damnation and inuring themselves to a habitude that will eventually offer them everlasting torment in return for a few years’ dissipation. Nor do they seem to take a lesson from history. Those who fall into their traps are only pitiable. People who have never heard of Islam will not go to Hell. Since they are not Muslims, they will not go to Paradise, either. They will cease to exist after the Day of Judgment, as will be the case with animals. A sound person, after learning science, biology, and astronomy, should study the religions and should select the Islamic religion, which corresponds with logic and science. Someone who fails to do so should still immediately become a Muslim as a result of fearing and trembling from the danger of being eternally burned in Hell, which is believed everywhere on the earth. If he still denies, then he does not follow logic.
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