Page 57 - The Silent Language Of Evil

Harun Yahya

others hidden messages of what they mean and what they want
from one another. Satan wants to establish this kind of morality
among people of faith and make them understand one another by
means of secret ritual behavior that is allusive, witty and contains
hidden messages. In this way, he distances them from the moral
teachings of the Qur'an by drawing them into his own insincerity
and moral perversity.
Those who examine satan's invitation will see for themselves its
greatest harm. As long as they do not seek Allah's favor and comply
with the Qur'an, there will be no dearth of anxiety and discontent in
their lives. It becomes impossible for them to derive any pleasure
from the blessings of food, drink, sleep and rest. They cannot enjoy
love and friendship; and they cannot be joyful, happy or content. In
addition, that they cannot find a solution to their spiritual state and
the discontent they so openly express puts them under great ten-
sion. Since their acquaintances are content and at ease and know
nothing of their predicament only increases their tension to an un-
bearable degree. For this reason, they sometimes harbor hidden
anger toward those around them. Because they continually fill
themselves with all these apprehensions, their negativity continues

to increase.
The negative spiritual state these people experience comes from
their total inability to grasp what faith is, and their failure to submit
themselves to Allah as they should. For this reason, as the Qur'an
tells us, Allah causes a spiritual drought to break over them and
gives them unbearable anxiety in their hearts:
When Allah desires to guide someone, He expands his
breast to Islam. When He desires to misguide someone, He
makes his breast narrow and constricted as if he were

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