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always remain conscious of what awaits them.
In the Qur’an, the significance of keeping death in
mind is expressed in the following verse:

“We granted not to any human being immortality before
you, then if you die, would they live forever? Every soul shall
have a taste of death: and We test you by evil and by good
by way of trial. To Us you will be returned.” (Surat al-
Anbiya, 21:34-35)

9 The Never-Ending Attempts of Satan

When Allah created Adam and commanded the
angels to prostrate themselves before him, they all
prostrated themselves except Satan, who
thenceforward was cursed. Satan’s response was to
ask Allah for a reprieve till the Day of Resurrection.
This was so that he would have the opportunity to
make people transgress. Once reprieved by Allah, he
committed himself to a course of action intended to
derail mankind:
“He said: ‘Because You have sent me astray, surely I will
lie in wait against them (human beings) on Your Straight
Path. Then I will come to them from before them and behind
them, from their right and from their left, and You will not
find most of them as thankful ones’” (Surat al-A‘raf, 7:16-
17)

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