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THE SILENT LANGUAGE OF EVIL

good and evil, thanks to the mercy of conscience Allah has created in
His servants. In the Qur'an, Allah warns us about satan's traps:
O Humanity! Allah's promise is true. Do not let the life of
this world delude you and do not let the deluder delude
you about Allah. Satan is your enemy, so treat him as an
enemy. He summons his party so they will be among the
people of the Searing Blaze. (Surah Fatir: 5-6)

There's another way by which satan deceives human beings in
the name of Allah: he tempts them to commit sins, promising that
Allah will forgive them. Allah's mercy is infinite and He may forgive
all His servants who repent and asks for forgiveness. But it is insin-
cere to sin deliberately with the idea that "Allah will forgive me in
any case." The heart of anyone who persists in such immoral behav-
ior will gradually grow hard and unfeeling. And acting without the
fear of Allah can draw such a person into even greater evil. In the
Qur'an, Allah gives the example of a person who knowingly com-
mits sins with the idea that Allah will soon forgive him, and He
warns humans against such deceptions of satan:
An evil generation has succeeded them, inheriting the
Book, taking the goods of this lower world, and saying,
"We will be forgiven." But if similar goods come to them
again, they still take them. Has not a covenant been made
with them in the Book, that they should only say the truth
about Allah and have they not studied what is in it? The
Final Abode is better for those who believe. Will you not
use your intellect? (Surat al-A'raf: 169)

Of course, as stated at the beginning of this book, all these strat-
agems that satan employs can influence only those without faith.
For those who have made the Qur'an their guide, there is an obvious

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