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Rasûlullah sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam declared: “The building of Islâm has been constructed upon five pillars. The first of them is to say, “Ash-hadu an lâ ilâha illallah wa ashhadu anna Muhammadan abduhu wa rasûluh’ and to believe its meaning.” The meaning of this word of Shahâdat is: “I know and believe as if I saw that there is no god, nobody besides Allahu ta‟âlâ, whose existence is necessary and who is worth worshipping and obeying. I know and believe as if I saw that Muhammad (alayhissalâm) is both a born servant and the Prophet of Allahu ta‟âlâ. He having been sent, the religions of the prophets preceding him have been completed and their validity has been abrogated. Attaining endless bliss necessitates following him. Each of his utterances has been communicated to him by Allahu ta‟âlâ. All of them are correct. There is no likelihood for any mistake.” [A person who wants to become a Muslim first expresses this word of Shahâdat and its meaning. Then he learns how to perform a ghusl and namâz, and then the fards and harâms to the extent that is needed.] The only way to attain happiness here and in the Hereafter is to become a Muslim. And being a Muslim requires believing in the facts such as that Allâhu ta‟âlâ exists and is one, that He sees and knows everything, that He is the maker [creator] of everything, that Muhammad „alaihis-salâm‟ is the Prophet, that after death there will be everlasting blessings and a sweet life in a place called Jannat (Paradise) and an everlasting burning in a place called Jahannam (Hell), that Muslims will go to Jannat and non-Muslims, i.e. those who deny Islam after hearing about it, will burn eternally in Jahannam. More than ninety-per-cent of the world‟s population, that is all Christians, all Jews, all politicians and statesmen in Europe and America, all scientists, commanders, brahmins, buddhists, fire worshippers and idolaters believe that we will rise after death and that there is everlasting torment in Hell. 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 selfcomplacency. Are all those Europeans and Americans unwise to be devoted to their religious beliefs and being wise is 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. Though a few thousand communist statesmen who are fond of worldly pleasures, heedless, oppressive, attack others property and chastity, tyrannize over millions of people and prevent them from learning Islam, such people who have never heard of Islâm will not enter the Hell. Since they are not Muslims, they will not go to Paradise, either. They will cease to exist after the Day of Judgement, as will the case be with animals. A sound person, after learning science, biology and astronomy, should study the religions and should select the Islâmic religion, which corresponds with logic and science. Someone who fails in this 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 disbelieves, then he does not follow logic.