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THE ORDERS GIVEN BY SATAN TO DISTANCE PEOPLE 41
FROM THE QUR'AN

people see immorality of all kinds as reasonable and become insen-
sitive to what is happening around them. In fact, in environments of
this type, breaking plates, overturning tables, throwing napkins, at-
tacks on others with obscene language, and fights reflect only a
small part of the kind of heedlessness and immorality into which
people can sink.
Concert arenas, football stadiums and other places where large
crowds gather only magnify this effect of heedlessness. A large
number of people go to such places not to enjoy themselves or to
watch an entertaining game or to listen to a beautiful voice but to
shout, to fight and to cause trouble, in short to display ugly behav-
iour of every kind. In such environments, it is utterly impossible for
people with no fear of Allah to extract from their minds a single use-
ful thought. It only remains to be said that people in such an uncon-
trolled environment that encourages violence and immorality, are
wide open to the whisperings of Satan so that the obedience of peo-
ple to Satan's "Don't think!" order is ensured. Allah draws attention
to this method of Satan's with this verse: "Stir up any of them you

can with your voice and rally against them your cavalry and your
infantry and share with them in their children and their wealth
and make them promises!.." (Surat al-'Isra: 64)
People whose lives are filled with work and going out to such
places of entertainment, where heedlessness reigns, forget that one
day they will meet the angel of death. And when they do, it is too
late, because this person has passed his worldly life in pursuit of
empty practices and has fled from consideration of the verses of the
Qur'an. For a person who thinks about death, the transitory nature
of life and his responsibilities towards Allah, it is impossible ever to
accept such a heedless state. A person who knows that Allah can
take his life at any moment and that there will be a reckoning for his