Warning From Satan (Al-Shytan)
We go back to the Hadith of the
Messenger of Allah (PBUH). He (PBUH) wanted to warn us from the obsession of
Satan (Al-Shytan) and from the vain desires of our souls. He also wanted to
open the gate of hope in front of us and not to close it so that those who
believe would take every precaution and those who disobey would hang to Allah’s
repentance (SWT) and forgiveness. That is why in Al-Hadith we see that a man
will do all the good deeds that makes him deserve to be among the people of
Paradise, but is then tempted by Satan (AlShytan) who concentrates on seducing the
faithful believers and never leaves them alone. Just as Al-Haqq (SWT) tells us
that Satan (Al-Shytan) concentrates his seduction on the believers in the noble
verse:
<<”Surely,
I will sit in wait against them (human beings) on Your Straight Path”>>
Ayah
16 from surat Al-‘Araf
So Satan (Al-Shytan) does not concentrate
his effort on the places of amusement and wickedness where there is wine
served. For he is already done with the people in those places and they do not
need to be tempted any more as they have already fallen into seduction. Their
lusts and vain desires have responded to the seduction and they have become
helpers of the devils (Al-Shyatin) and that is why Satan does need to spend any
effort with them but he focuses his effort on the people who do their prayers,
the ones who obey. He approaches them by all means; he tempts them with illegal
money and if they resist he will tempt them to do adultery by beautifying women
to them and if that does not work he will seduce them to take bribes or to
gamble or lie or drink wine.
And by that Satan (Al-Shytan) keeps on
beautifying the wrong deeds to the believer until he falls into doing the sins.
If Satan fails in driving man into sins, he never loses hope and he starts
approaching him from the acts of worship. He for example, whispers to man to
make him doubt his ablution (wodo’o) and repeat it many times. And every time
man makes ablution (wodo’o), Satan would whisper to him that his ablution
(wodo’) is not accepted and he would do the same when man makes his prayer. And
in that way Satan (Al-Shytan) keeps approaching man from the side of Faith and
keeps whispering to him until the acts of worship becomes hard on him, although
religion is meant to be easy.
The main objective of Satan (Al-Shytan)
is to make the acts of worship hard on the believer so that he would hate it or
to make the believer think desperately that his devotion is not accepted from
Allah (SWT) so that he would stop performing it altogether.
The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) wants to
draw our attention to the access points that Satan (Al-Shytan) uses with the
believer so that we would know it. For our prophet (PBUH) wants us to know that
Satan (Al-Sytan) will not leave us until our life term ends. Al-Shytan never
loses hope and he keeps whispering to us to stop our devotion by saying that we
have Paradise guaranteed. He keeps repeating those words until we are wrongly
convinced by his concept and we reduce our devotion and do less good things.
Then Al-Shytan tempts us to do sins until we slip into it one after the other
and then the writing of destiny overcomes us. The writing that Allah (SWT)
pre-destined for the sinners and for those who walk away from his course and by
that are deprived of Allah’s (SWT) lead to guidance.
But also those who perform sins should
pay attention that the door of repentance is open as long as they live and as
long as the time of death has not come yet. That is why they have to be quick
in the race for forgiveness for if they do that and act like the dwellers of
Paradise, they would enter the will of Allah’s guidance and He would then help
them to guidance and would endear Faith and beautify it in their hearts. Allah
(SWT) would change their evil into good and they would become among the people
of Paradise. So we can see how the Noble Hadith does not mean that the person
who performs good deeds would irrespective of his good deeds go to Hell.
To be continued....
