The Religion Of The Ignorant

Say: "If your fathers or your sons or your brothers or your wives or your tribe, or any wealth you have acquired, or any business you fear may slump, or any house which pleases you, are dearer to you than Allah and His messenger and striving in His way, then wait until Allah brings about His command. Allah does not guide people who are deviators." (Surat at-Tawba, 24)

The verse lists a number of basic value judgments elevated by Ignorantism and describes how esteeming these above the value judgments of Islam is a feature of a society that has rebelled against Allah. The erroneous conception of love in such societies is one such value judgment. In the Religion of the Ignorant love of society and human beings generally comes before love of Allah. The approval of others is regarded more highly than that of Allah. This is described in the Qur'an as shirk, in other words adopting deities other than Allah:

Some people set up equals to Allah, loving them as they should love Allah. But those who believe have greater love for Allah... (Surat al-Baqara, 165)

However, these people imagine that this consists solely of worshipping idols made of wood or plaster, and so regard themselves as being very distant from such behavior and never accept the word as applying to themselves. When told that the system they are a part of ascribes partners to Allah, they are indignant. Nevertheless, no matter how much those who ascribe partners to Allah seek to exonerate themselves, Allah's stipulation is irrefutable. The situation of the idolaters is revealed as follows in the Qur'an:

Allah does not forgive anything being associated with Him but He forgives whoever He wills for anything other than that. Anyone who associates something with Allah has gone very far astray. (Surat an-Nisa', 116)

The book of Ignorantism is the collection of rules consisting of the culture inherited from their forebears and the conditions prevailing at that time. For that reason, the Qur'an is not regarded as a guide. Their place for the Qur'an is wrapped up in a decorative cloth, placed as high up as possible. Nobody can touch it. This is a most important phenomenon, however, which means the Qur'an being kept as far removed as possible from people's lives by a cunning and devilish ruse. Allah elucidates this situation with the words of His messenger, who will complain of such people on the Day of Judgment:

The messenger says, "My Lord, my people treat this Qur'an as something to be ignored." (Surat al-Furqan, 30)

Afterwards, people live by the standards imposed by other false lords, such as principles of society, family traditions, the way they are brought up, second-hand religious knowledge, the words of their elders and the legacy of their ancestors. Yet Allah addresses those who adopt a system incompatible with the Qur'an and who nevertheless still imagine themselves to be Muslims thus:

What is the matter with you? On what basis do you judge? Or do you have a Book which you study, so that you may have anything in it you choose? Or do you have oaths which bind Us, extending to the Day of Resurrection, that you will have whatever you decide? (Surat al-Qalam, 36-39)

Instead of the religion chosen by Allah, members of the Religion of the Ignorant have adopted their own desires and passions, the culture inherited from their society which they take as their guide, and have thus turned away from the true path. They have thus exchanged the true religion, the most perfect and sole hope of salvation, sent down as a mercy from Allah, for the sake of a few and short-lived worldly benefits. The poor nature of this bargain is revealed in the Qur'an: