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From here, we understand that the saying "others are evil" propagated by Western artists, is originated from the values that lack the warmth of social relations and from the feeling caused by the non-Islamic society, as well as, from the competitive environment which many a time encourages toward harming others. Indeed, a true believer living in a safe society can never accept and live under this black and harmful theory.

It is possible that our friends might cause some problems for us, but we can, through wisdom, patience and caution, find a way to attract them toward us and, thereafter, we know how to make them our friends. It is reported from the former United States president Abraham Lincoln that a woman heard him praising his enemies.

She asked him in a surprising tone: "You are praising those enemies who are working for your destruction?" He said: "Am I not destroying them when I make them my friends?!" Before him (Lincoln), the Prophets (peace be upon them) and their leader the Holy (s.a.w.) had followed this way of breaking the enmity of their foes and making them their friends. And, likewise, this way was followed by the Holy Imams (Ahlul-Bait) (a.s.) and other saints. They made their enemies their friends and followers.

Indeed, it is a great human theory for the one who faces evil with good. He will strike down evil and make it shake like a slaughtered animal until it breathes its last breath. It makes the value of a kind person rise to the state of the Kind and the Forgiver. Indeed it is one of Allah's traits, which becomes compulsory for us, as Muslims, to practice.

A Prophetic narration, in this regard, says: "Do good to the possessor of good as well as to those who lack it, because even if they are not from those who do good, you have become one of the doers of good." Thus, this moral way will take us from the state "envy and evil" to the state of those who practice love and goodness to others. The first state is a state of destruction while the second one is a state of life and growth.

In view of this, if we want to attest to the development and growth of a particular society, we should look into its social relations. If the principles of ethics and its manners govern the relations among its people, we will evaluate that the society is moving toward development and growth.