Page 116 - Communication and Argument in the Qur'an

114 COMMUNICATION AND ARGUMENT IN THE QUR’AN

ridicule the believers may have a spiritual relationship with
satan. They may go apart with their satans and may be his
intimate followers. Those who argue with each other fre-
quently lie and distort the facts, or else say something “off
the top of their head” and then go on to argue it away.
Arguing does not stay on any real topic and has no mean-
ingful purpose. Everyone tries to impose their own view on
others with clichés and stereotypical ideas.
Shall I tell you upon whom the satans descend? They
descend on every evil liar. They give them a hearing,
and most of them are liars. (Surat ash-Shu‘ara’: 221-
223)
Unbelievers sometimes launch a propaganda campaign
to point believers and those with religious tendencies
toward an alternative to true religion. Seeking thereby to
destroy the credibility of true religion, they incite argu-
ments about it because they desire to extinguish Allah’s
Light with their mouths (Surat as-Saff: 8). Arguments are
incited in all possible open media venues to target religion,
and anti-religious articles, writings and pictures denying
the truth of creation are regularly placed in some newspa-
pers and magazines to extinguish Allah’s light. They delib-
erately attempt to disparage Islam and the Qur’an, shake
people’s belief in religion, and deter them from religious
morality. No doubt, these activities are designed to prevent
the spread of religion, to put pressure on those who com-
municate it, and to stop the spread of religious morality.
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