“Of course, good and evil do exist, and the responsibility for drawing a line between the two falls to each of us. I am not Allah, God forbid, and I was not the one who planted such absurdities into the heads of [humanity]; they came up with it all by themselves…I am not the source of all the evil in the world. Many people sin out of their own blind ambition, lust, lack of will power, baseness, and most often, out of their own idiocy without any instigation, deception or temptation on my part…For centuries, countless accusations have been leveled at me, but [most are] far from the truth.
Sure I work very hard so you might create grave sins. But some [fools] claim that all of you who gape, sneeze or even fart are my dupes, which tells me they haven’t understood me in the least….If only my angry and shallow enemies, who never tire of condemning me, would remember that it was the Almighty Himself who granted me life until Judgement Day, while allotting them no more than sixty or seventy years…”
Excerpt borrowed (and selfishly manipulated) from the book ‘My Name Is Red’ by Orhan Pamuk. I highly recommend it.