The Quran

إِنَّ الَّذينَ يُلحِدونَ في آياتِنا لا يَخفَونَ عَلَينا ۗ أَفَمَن يُلقىٰ فِي النّارِ خَيرٌ أَم مَن يَأتي آمِنًا يَومَ القِيامَةِ ۚ اعمَلوا ما شِئتُم ۖ إِنَّهُ بِما تَعمَلونَ بَصيرٌ

Ali Unal

Surely those who deviate from the right way concerning Our signs (in nature and life) and Revelations¹ are not hidden from Us. Who is in better state – the one who is thrown into the Fire, or the one who comes secure on the Day of Resurrection? Do what you will. surely He sees well all that you do.

Deviation from the right way concerning God’s signs in nature and life can occur in many ways. For example, making any of these signs—a the sun, the moon, the stars, or any human being or jinn – an object of worship, or using them as the means of denying God as the Creator and Ruler of them, as the modern materialistic scientific approach does, are two such ways. Deviation concerning the Revelations or the Divine Scriptures can also occur in numerous ways. Some of these ways are by distorting their meaning, misusing them for worldly benefits, making alterations in them, or interpreting them arbitrarily without being based on sound knowledge.