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In another verse, Allah states that satan tries hard to sow
the seeds of conflict among believers, and that the way to
defeat him is to say what is best:

Say to My servants that they should only say the best.
Satan wants to stir up trouble between them. Satan
is an outright enemy to man. (Surat al-Isra’; 53)

STATEMENTS BY MR. ADNAN OKTAR
REGARDING HOW MUSLIMS SHOULD
SUPPORT ONE ANOTHER

ADNAN OKTAR: Look, I am telling Muslims the very
easiest thing. They must love other Muslims. What is difficult
about that? They are suspicious of one another. They must
completely eradicate these sectarian differences, the anger
and division stemming from these school differences. I am
talking about the easiest thing. Nobody can say they cannot
do that. What difficulty is there in it? They must go and say
‘salamünaleyküm – aleykümsalam, my brother.’ They must go
and eat and talk together. I am saying the easiest thing. This is
terrible corruption and must be eliminated at once. They
must think the best of Muslims. Muslims have a tendency to
gossip. A lot of them. There are good ones, too, and I con-
sider them apart from this statement. As soon as anything
happens, say in class, they start gossiping about other [Islamic]
communities. I have seen this a lot. I mean, as soon as two
people come together they start gossiping. Gossiping is
unlawful. Allah compares it to eating a Muslim’s flesh. And it
brings infertility and ill fortune with it. People must pray for