Page 77 - The Silent Language Of Evil

Harun Yahya

people look at one another in their daily lives. Some do pay atten-
tion to this, of course, but there are some who generally give no
thought to the lifeless facial expressions of those around them.
Actually, they do not care about it because many of them are in a
similar condition. With believers, the situation is different. They use
their minds and intellects in the way the Qur'an directs and so they
sense the slightest negativity or influence of satan in others. They ex-
hort a lifeless person whose stare has been fixed by satan's influence
to practice a morality in accord with the Qur'an. They urge him to
think about Allah and the next life and try to show him the error of
his ways. They remind him of his responsibility in Allah's presence
for his lack of eagerness and that, if he ignores his conscience, he
may not be able to account for himself in the Afterlife. They tell him
that failing to recognize these blessings among all the others that
Allah has created for human beings, adopting an expressionless per-
sonality, may constitute ingratitude for Allah's mercy. But because
such people deliberately fashion the state they are in, they do not
learn from the exhortations that believers give them.
But, as explained above, these individuals are the ones most
harmed by their attitude, both spiritually and materially. Expressing

emotions in one's facial expressions is natural, but such people ex-
pend much energy to repress these expressions. They deprive them-
selves of many blessings by taking no pleasure in pleasant
situations, by pretending not to like something that everyone else
does, by looking sad when they could have been joyful. By trying to
stifle their natural human feelings of joy, liveliness and exuberance,
they are actually harming nobody but themselves. Because of the
stress and anxiety that accompany such deportment, these people
physically weaken, their constitution suffers and they are prone to

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