while the other betrays their hidden reality: “When they meet those who believe, they say, ‘We have believed,’ but when they withdraw to their devils they say, ‘We are really with you; we were only mocking.’” (Qur’an 2:14).

They have turned away from the Book and the Sunnah, scorning and belittling those who uphold them, and they refuse to submit to the ruling of the two Revelations. Instead, they exult in the learning they possess—learning whose excess yields nothing but greater evil and arrogance. Thus you invariably see them ridiculing those who cling to the clear text of revelation: “Allah mocks them and lets them wander blindly in their rebellion.” (1) [Qur’an 2:15].

Yet Allah has commanded us to align ourselves with the believers: “O you who believe, fear Allah and be with the truthful.” (Qur’an 9:119).

These atheistic ideologies are mutually antagonistic because they are founded upon falsehood. Communism denies the existence of the Creator, wages war against the heavenly religions, and whoever is content that his intellect live without creed and rejects self-evident certainties has, in effect, annulled his own reason. Secularism likewise repudiates religion and relies on