Anyone who adopts it is not worthy of trust. He is indeed worthy of nothing but contempt and denunciation. This is a statement of great significance, Allah s path is straight, and every other way is crooked. When people are turned away from Allah s path and believers are forcibly barred from following Allah s constitution, nothing remains straight. Our standards become faulty and nothing remains on earth except crookedness which can never be set straight.
Corruption thus wins the upper hand.
Human nature becomes corrupt as it deviates from the straight path, and life becomes corrupt as it follows a crooked line. All this corruption is the result of turning people away from the path of Allah which generates erroneous concepts, deviant conscience, crooked morality, wicked behaviour, unfair transactions and injustice in all relations within human society and between man and the universe around him. Either people follow the path of Allah which is straight and leads to everything that is good, or they deviate from it in any direction, and this will inevitably lead to crookedness, evil and corruption. In man s life, there is no third alternative.