Page 121 - The Religion Of The Ignorant

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

once have revealed her true face, spoken with her true voice or re-
flected her authentic personality even to close friends with whom
she has spent the previous 40 years.
Someone with an affected character never feels or displays true
love for anyone else, because selfishness predominates alongside af-
fectation. The person most loved by someone with such a nature is
herself. She likes herself much more than she does anyone else. She
believes herself to be more intelligent and cultured than anyone else,
and attaches no importance to anyone else, including her children,
spouse and parents. She is therefore unable to approach anyone
with a genuine, sincere love. Any displays of affection are therefore
a façade. She never, for example, embraces the person in front of her,
compliments others, or mentions their positive traits in a genuine
manner. People of this kind usually praise the other person's outfit,
and ask where they got it and what it cost. Or they may like a partic-
ular hairstyle and ask where the person had it done. A piece of jew-
elry may attract their attention, and they will compliment that. Yet
they never praise another's moral virtues, or the attractive aspects of
their appearance. They never refer to humility, compassion, pa-
tience, conscience, fear of Allah or generosity. Neither do they wish
to give people's physical features any pre-eminence. They are thus
unable to show love and win people's hearts.
People with such a character always have two faces, two tones
of voice and two personalities. One belongs to themselves, the other
is the one they show to the outside world. They never, for example,
possess the honesty to tell others what is in their heart at that mo-
ment. Even if they do not love someone, they may still put on a false
show of affection. They may fraudulently talk about how cultured
someone is, when they actually believe him to be ignorant, or rain

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