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Then I will come at them, from in front of
them and behind them, from their right and
from their left. You will not find most of them
thankful.' He (Allah) said, 'Get out of it,
reviled and driven out. As for those of them
who follow you, I will fill up Hell with every
one of you' (Surat al-A'raf: 16-18)

The shaytan has no power whatsoever over
conscientious people
From the foregoing, one may have gained the impression
that the shaytan is an important power to be avoided. It should,
however, be known that the shaytan's power is extremely
weak. In a verse, Allah states:
Those who believe fight in the Way of Allah.
Those who disbelieve fight in the way of false
gods. So fight the friends of the shaytan! The
shaytan's scheming is always feeble. (Surat an-
Nisa': 76)
The shaytan is not a being who has power of his own to
use against Allah's Will. The shaytan is a negative power that
Allah has allowed to exist in order to test man. Allah has
created the shaytan and the lower self, to distinguish those who
believe from those who are in doubt. The shaytan himself
knows that he is very weak and powerless against sincere and
conscientious people. He can never take them under control
and all of his schemes against them fail. This situation is
mentioned in many verses of the Qur'an:
He (the shaytan) has no authority over those
who believe and put their trust in their Lord.
He only has authority over those who take