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THE SILENT LANGUAGE OF EVIL

Satan uses these tactics in every matter a person must deal in
daily life. As a result, someone he has urged into evil is drawn into
ever-greater error and prevented from avoiding the evils he has be-
come immersed in. In reality, however, satan has become a close
friend of this deceived person and drawn him closer to his own reli-
gious ideas and moral qualities. About this matter, the Qur'an says:
If someone shuts his eyes to the remembrance of the All-

Merciful, We assign him a satan who becomes his bosom
friend. They debar them from the path, yet they still think
they are guided. (Surat az-Zukhruf: 36-37)

He uses insidious methods and urges people to
be sly

To divert people from the right path and draw them into Hell
with him, one of the most important tactics that satan resorts to is in-
sidiousness—one of the most indispensable methods that he uses in
his pitiless struggle against human beings. If he invited people to
join him by revealing his true intentions, he wouldn't be successful.
If he admitted how much he hates human beings and has been their
enemy since the beginning of their history, how hard he has tried to
deceive them and drag them with himself into the eternal pangs of
Hell, then people would certainly beware of him and be saved from
falling into his traps. For this reason, satan tries to mislead them by
using lies, insincerity and deceitful tricks. He avoids acting in any
way that would make them think that he is their enemy. He may
even not openly suggest that they follow him, practice unseemly
morality, do harm to themselves and others—and every time they
have to choose between good and evil, that they act on the side of
evil. In fact, these suggestions actually sum up satan's final goal. He

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