Page 71 - The Silent Language Of Evil

Harun Yahya

control of Allah and His infinite mercy, he lives constantly in fear
and chaos. Because of his anxious spiritual state, he becomes intro-
verted and prefers to be alone. In this state, he will grow sorrowful
and without hope and have spare time to invent imaginary scenar-
ios. Forgetting Allah and adopting a way of thinking that gives pref-
erence to other people; he is directed into ways of thinking that gives
him ample scope to make himself miserable. A meeting he must at-
tend, a bus he missed or an outfit he doesn't not like assumes the di-
mensions of a disaster. No matter how much he tries to convince
himself that he shouldn't care about these things, none of the reasons
he comes up with affects him. The spiritual condition he's in makes
it impossible to persuade himself. He forgets that everything hap-
pens to him with Allah's knowledge; he believes that he must man-
age people and events by himself. And, seeing that he lacks the
strength to do this, he is devastated.
In such a situation, the strongest body cannot stand up to the
tension. Thinking that people and events are unrelated to Allah, he
cannot see any good; therefore, his point of view is totally negative
and he gradually comes to the point where he does not care about
anything. He views everything pessimistically. He cannot admit to

himself that he no longer believes in happiness or love. And, when
he thinks of the situation he's in, his anxieties increase. Having hope
is very difficult. If others pay him a compliment, he thinks they are
making fun of him; if someone does him a favor, he thinks he's done
it to humiliate him. If someone prefers to keep a secret, he thinks that
it's a matter that has to do with him. His mind always works in an
unhealthy way, and there is no solution to this other than following
the moral teachings of the Qur'an and submitting to Allah. The hap-
piest events cannot make anyone happy if he is negative, deter-

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