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“ ’I will mislead them, and I will create in them false
desires; I will order them to slit the ears of cattle, and to
change the nature created by Allah.’ Whoever, forsaking
Allah, takes satan for a friend, hath of a surety suffered a
loss that is manifest.” (Surat an-Nisa, 4:119)

One who is unaware of the menace of Satan,
cannot protect himself against him and can easily be
deceived by him. Therefore, believers should be fully
alert to Satan, as is commanded in the Qur’an:
“Verily Satan is an enemy to you: so treat him as an
enemy. He only invites his adherents, that they may become
Companions of the Blazing Fire.” (Surah Fatir, 35:6)
Those who should be the most cautious about
Satan are the believers, because it is they who are
Satan’s actual targets. There is no need for him to try
to make the unbelievers transgress; because they
have already turned out to belong to his own army.
He, therefore, strives to the utmost to weaken the
believers so as to prevent them from serving Allah.
That is why believers are particularly warned against
Satan:

“O you who believe! Follow not Satan’s footsteps: if any
will follow the footsteps of Satan, he will (but) command
what is shameful and wrong: and were it not for the grace
and mercy of Allah on you, not one of you would ever have
been pure: but Allah doth purify whom He pleases: and

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