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WHAT THE QUR'AN SAYS ABOUT LIARS AND THEIR METHODS
Allah has cursed. He [Satan] said: "I will take a cer-
tain fixed proportion of Your servants." (Surat an-
Nisa’, 4:117-18)
Nobody wants to admit that he or she serves Satan or
shows devotion to him. However, those who spend their lives
ignoring their conscience and heeding the voice of Satan,
which is always within them, are always true to Satan. In the
Qur'an, Allah gives us the following information about such
people:
If someone shuts his eyes to the remembrance of the
All-Merciful, We assign him a devil who becomes his
bosom friend—they debar them from the path, yet
they still think they are guided—so that, when he
reaches Us, he says: "If only there was the distance of
the two Easts between you and me!" What an evil
companion! It will not benefit you today, since you
did wrong, that you share equally in the punishment.
(Surat az-Zukhruf, 43:36-39)
One of Satan's most telling characteristics is his constant
belief that he is always right. Therefore, he incites those people
to whom he speaks to believe that they are always right as
well. As we can see in the verses above, Satan's friends believe
that they are guided.
People who lie always see justice and truth in themselves.
They believe that their lies are told for a very good reason.
When such people say that they are admitting their lies, they
are serious only on a few minor points and insist on not admit-
ting any others, for they have not abandoned their devotion to
Satan.
Many people who read these lines may be unable to prop-
erly imagine what devotion to Satan is. Those who are loyal to

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