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THE ORDERS GIVEN BY SATAN TO DISTANCE PEOPLE 55
FROM THE QUR'AN

separate from anybody who reads the Qur'an, speaks about it, lives
by its rules and invites others to follow it. He believes that being in
their company will have, from his point of view, a very negative ef-
fect on his faction, because due to their submission to Allah they re-
mind others of Him with their every act and their every word,
positively affecting those around them with their steadfast morality.
People who are in the company of the faithful are affected positively,
whether they want to be or not, and their hearts warm towards
Islam. This is exactly what Satan does not want. Because of this, he
orders those who reject faith to stay away from believers and have
no relationship with them. On the contrary, he wants them to dis-
play antagonistic, aggressive and mocking behaviour towards the
faithful because this reduces the possibility of a positive relationship
developing between them.
Those who resist faith because of this powerful satanic influence
take care to stay away from people who believe in Allah. A person's
faith and awareness of living for Allah is sufficient to distance the de-
niers from him or make them feel malice against him because the
faithful, due to their pointing out the truth, represent a spiritual dan-
ger to the deniers whose lives are far removed from moral living. In
the Qur'an, the behaviour of deniers towards the faithful who invoke
the name of Allah or remind others of Allah is described in this way:

Those who do not believe all but strike you down with their
evil looks when they hear the Reminder and say, "He is quite
mad." But it is nothing less than a Reminder to all the worlds.
(Surat al-Qalam: 51-52)
When Our Signs are recited to them—Clear Signs—you can de-
tect denial in the faces of those who do not believe. They all
but assault those who recite Our Signs to them!.. (Surat al-Hajj:
72)