LINGERING DOUBTS

“central issue.” Instead, throughout these proceedings, Islam was presented as a way to create a better citizenry, a better society, and a better state. In this example, you can clearly see that prayer, fasting, heaven, and hell are all part of this religious framework, but due to a shift in ideological perspective, these elements no longer hold their original significance. The religion of God has, in a sense, become foreign within its own structure. Some people might not outright reject my observations, but they may feel there is significant “exaggeration” in them. They might doubt that the image before them is truly their own, since it looks so alarming and distorted. If that’s the case, I would compare their situation to someone who doesn’t understand the science behind an iceberg. If a thousand-foot iceberg were lifted from the ocean and placed in front of them, they might find it hard to believe that this huge mass of ice is the same as the one they saw before, with only a hundred feet visible above the surface. This doubt mainly arises because, when a person looks at the literature of this interpretation and the lives of its followers, they see that outwardly, everything seems to align with what the Quran and Hadith teach. So, they are confused about what flaw in this interpretation might justify such harsh criticism. However, this “everything” that you see within its framework is not