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THE SILENT LANGUAGE OF EVIL

The secret insincerity of those caught up in
despair
Those who say they are despairing and refuse to make any pos-
itive effort put forth many claims to justify the logic of their situa-
tion. They want to prove, using satan's insidious methods, that there
are reasons for their distrustful, pessimistic behavior, and they are
aware that the excuses they offer are not sincere. Besides, they know
that Allah will remove every anxiety and need from those who fol-
low the solutions revealed in the Qur'an. Even though they do them-
selves great harm, they live their lives apart from the morality of the

Qur'an. Why are they so determined in this? Allah explains in the
Qur'an:
... However, their hearts were hard and satan made what
they were doing seem attractive to them. (Surat al-An'am:
43)
Strangely, satan makes these people take pleasure in what they
are doing. Indeed, in order to be able to follow the path that satan
shows them, they oppress themselves, live in a pessimistic spiritual
state and agree to living their whole lives in misery. In a sense, they
are committing spiritual suicide. Because of their unseemly moral
characters, instead of being good-natured and living a good life,
they find it more attractive to destroy the love, respect and trust that
their acquaintances have for them and to live alone in the world,
with no close friends other than satan.
Clearly, they have fashioned this situation with their own
hands, and it is the repayment that Allah has given them in this
world for making friends with satan. Even if these people wanted to
attain the Garden, it would not be possible; they prefer to live an un-
happy life claiming that they have abandoned all hope of Allah's

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