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Satan, the Voice of Misery

they remember and immediately see clearly. (Surat al-‘Araf:
200-201)
As Allah points out in the verse, "... Satan's scheming is always
feeble" (Surat an-Nisa': 76), the scheming of Satan over believers is
very weak, but the same is not true of those who set their faces
against the Qur'an and live in heedlessness of Allah. Allah tells us in
Surat ash-Shu‘ara': 233 that, "They give them [Satans] a hearing."
Because they do not listen to the voice of their consciences, they do
exactly what Satan tells them. These people have forgotten the
power of Allah and fallen completely under the control of Satan. To
put it another way, they have made Satan a deity. For this reason it is
very easy for Satan to draw these people to his path and make them
live completely disconnected from Allah and the Qur'an. Allah tells
us that Satan perversely influences people who adopt him as their
friend and guardian but that he has no compulsive power over the
faithful:
He [Satan] has no authority over those who believe and put
their trust in their Lord. He only has authority over those
who take him as a friend and associate others with Allah.
(Surat an-Nahl: 99-100)

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