Page 91 - The Silent Language Of Evil

Harun Yahya

will pay heed. (Surah Ibrahim: 24-25)
Again in another verse, Allah tells people to say the kindest
things to one another, or else satan will come among them and ruin
their relationships:

Say to My servants that they should only say the best. Satan
wants to stir up trouble between them. Satan is an outright
enemy to man. (Surat al-Isra': 53)
Believers, wanting to live every moment of their lives in a way
that will please Allah, make it their intention always to say the kind-
est things to one another, as these verses enjoin. But those who order
their lives according to the will of satan, adopt a totally different
kind of behavior. There are many reasons why they avoid saying
kind words, paying compliments and engaging in pleasant conver-
sation.
As in every case, what gets in the way of these individuals' abil-
ity to say kind things is their arrogance. The major characteristic of
any arrogant individual is that he places his own lower self before
everything else. All other things, even the basic aim of winning
Allah's favor, come after that.
It's very difficult for such a person to put aside the arrogance so
important to him and to speak kindly to those around him. He can-
not pay a compliment or enter into pleasant conversation, because
he regards himself as the most intelligent human being in the world.
This being the case, he cannot willingly praise anyone else. Again, in
his own view, he is the most logical person on earth, and it is there-
fore unbefitting him to listen to what anyone else says. He thinks
that he has the finest qualities and so, should never pay compli-
ments; others should compliment him!

Another reason why these people avoid saying kind words is

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