Page 65 - The Debased Culture of Superficiality

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar 63

And the two recording angels are recording, sitting on
the right and on the left. He does not utter a single word,
without a watcher by him, pen in hand! (Surah Qaf: 17-
18)

A person may forget the pointless conversations he had in
the past, or even yesterday, but as revealed in the Qur’an:

“. . . My Lord does not misplace nor does He forget.”
(Surah Ta Ha: 52)

A person may forget the things he has said but Allah, with
His infinite knowledge, remembers every word that a human
being has uttered.
In the culture of superficiality, it is usual for people to try
to get others to feel sorry for them, with the hope of getting
some help. Shallow people like drawing attention to them-
selves, expecting that someone will take an interest in feeling
sorry for them. Such people want to stir up a sense of pity by
constantly relating the injustice of some situation they’re in
and how difficult conditions are. They take a strange plea-
sure from other people regarding them as wronged and
wanting to help them. They have an incomprehensible desire
to be looked after and protected by others. However, a noble
individual takes no pleasure from being pitied. On the con-
trary, he wants to be seen as strong and resilient. In the
Qur’an, Allah says that only deceitful people display such
behavior. Because of their jealousy, for example, the brothers
of the Prophet Yusuf (as) wanted to kill him and threw him
into a well. Afterwards, as we are told in the Qur’an, they
wanted to make their father, the Prophet Ya‘qub (as), feel
sorry for them: