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THE SILENT LANGUAGE OF EVIL

tion, the choice to act on the side of evil or good is totally a matter of
a human will. If we have faith and act according to the Qur'an's
moral teaching, satan will have no influence over us. As the Qur'an
says: "He [satan] has no authority over those who believe and put
their trust in their Lord." (Surat an-Nahl: 99) In this way, satan's
plans will be upset: "... Satan's scheming is always feeble." (Surat
an-Nisa': 76)
Allah tells us in the Qur'an that satan can have no influence
over sincere believers:

He [satan] said, "By Your might, I will mislead all of them
except for Your chosen servants among them." (Surah Sad:
82-83)
Our Prophet (saas) tells in one of his hadith that satan can have
no influence on believers:
"So when one sees a bad dream which he does not like,… he should
seek refuge with Allah from its evil; then it will not harm him." (Sahih
Muslim)

If a person does not take refuge in Allah against satan and em-
brace the Qur'an as his guide to the right path, he will fall under the
influence of satan: "He [satan] only has authority over those who
take him as a friend and associate others with Allah." (Surat an-
Nahl: 100) And this will lead irrevocably to the pangs of Hell.
Certainly, no one wants to meet with such a doom. So a person
must learn all he can about satan from the Qur'an, how to respond to
his tricks and avoid his traps.
In the following pages, we will reveal satan's evil character, the
secret religion to which he calls people and the methods he uses to
do this—and the ways the Qur'an teaches us to avoid evil.

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