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THE SILENT LANGUAGE OF EVIL

The claim that they must think a long time before
correcting their errors
As we said earlier, satan does not want a person to live a good
moral life or use his conscience to conform his life to the Qur'an. To
this end, as we said, he wants to make it seem difficult to live
morally and purify the lower self and for an individual to make up
for his errors. He suggests that the errors he has committed are very
great. A person who has this idea loses hope that he can correct his
mistakes and that Allah will ever forgive him, and he may become
pessimistic about himself and events that will occur.

His lower self deceives him by making him think that he cannot
undo his mistakes without deep consideration; its purpose is to dis-
suade him from any attempt. He analyzes for hours, days and
weeks, down to the finest details, why he made such an error, why
things turned out as they did, what people think of him and why
they said to him the things they did. But examining these things in
this way will be of no use. If he only gives sincere consideration to
how he can make up for these errors, the situation may turn out in
his favor, by Allah's will.
We can give the following example: When a stiff and somber
person is urged to be lively and joyful, this is very easy for a person
to do. All he needs to do is to be kind and content in the knowledge
that Allah has created events for a good purpose. He does not have
to think systematically about this for hours. Satan wants people to
think that they must think long and hard about things that could im-
mediately be corrected. He suggests that, in order for anyone to be
joyful, he must first correct his other mistakes and must set time
aside in order to plan how to do this. Satan aims to gain time; he
wants to postpone this process and divert the person from his true

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