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THE SILENT LANGUAGE OF EVIL

leave a positive impression on others around them. No one wonders
"Why did she say such a thing?" or "Did he imply something?; and
no one doubts the intention of their words. They carefully avoid giv-
ing any impression of mystery. The Qur'an tells us that Allah leads
believers on the true path and shows them satan's wicked morality:
... However, Allah has given you love of faith and made it
pleasing to your hearts, and has made disbelief, deviance
and disobedience hateful to you. People such as these are

rightly guided. (Surat al-Hujurat: 7)
But because they act with satan's calculating insidiousness,
those who live apart from the morality of the Qur'an think that
being mysterious will make them more attractive and interesting to
others. The desire to be different from others presses heavily on
them, giving them a suspicious, disquieting and inscrutable look.
They appear to be one whose secret plans cannot be fathomed. Then
they expect Muslims to figure them out and understand their aspi-
rations.
However, Muslims wish to see good morality flourish in the
whole world and undertake important responsibilities toward this
end. But these others who want to vaunt their own importance lay
aside everything else in hopes that people will take an interest in
them. By exalting their own importance, they expect that others will
regard them in the same way.
In this, they resort to satan's insidious games. They subject
other people to examinations to determine how much others value
them and how well they think of them. They use this insidious,
senseless method to see if people really love and trust them. With a
simple change of intention, they could rid themselves of their per-
verse behavior, but they are determined not to do so until they suc-

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