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world caused suffering and inconvenience,” he says.
Answer: Talking about religion requires at least having a
smattering of religious knowledge. By likening Islam to today’s
capitalists and communist exploiters, his attacks upon the religion
indicate his enmity against Islam, an enmity which is so excessive
that it blinds his eyes and covers his intellect with anger. While
saying nothing against Western capitalists and cruel communists,
who accumulate the means of production in certain hands and
exploit the people, his attacking Islam, which commands social
equality, is sheer hatred towards Islam and open servility to
Russia. Because he does not have any Islamic knowledge, time and
again he attacks contentment and belief in qadar. In the name of
civilization, he talks only about economics and earning money. He
does not understand that contentment is a factor that prevents
psychiatric diseases, removes incompatibility and hostility, and
maintains order in societies. Contentment has expedited Islam’s
spreading all over the world and the erecting of monuments of
knowledge and science. Do the âyats, “He who works will earn,”
and, “Everybody will find [the recompense for] what he does,”
and also many hadîths, such as, “Allâhu ta’âlâ likes those who earn
by working,” and “Allâhu ta’âlâ absolutely dislikes those young
people who do not work,” which are written in Al-Munâwî,
command Muslims to work and make progress or to be lazy? Are
the Umayyad, Abbâsid, Ghaznawî, Indian Tamerlaines,
Andalusian and Ottoman civilizations, which were established by
Muslims, indicators of studiousness or indolence? Can a dervish’s
uttering the words “a morsel and only a coat” change the
commands of Qur’ân al-kerîm and the hadîths? The utterance of a
dervish in an ecstatic state is suitable and appropriate for his own
state, but it is not the whole of Islam. Belief in the next world
engenders not suffering but order and ease for individuals, families
and society. History shows clearly that this is so. Islam commands
not self-infliction, but the ending of material and spiritiual
sufferings and avoiding inconveniences and sorrows.
11- “These countries are still being administered with the laws
of the desert,” he says.
Answer: The commands and teachings that are stated in
Qur’ân al-kerîm, which was revealed by Allâhu ta’âlâ, and in
hundreds of thousands of hadîths arouse admiration within men of
knowledge and wisdom from all over the world. In order to explain
the superiority and value of these teachings and commands,
scholars of Islam have written thousands of books, some of which
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