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HE DECEIVES MAN
I will lead them astray and fill them with false hopes. I will
command them and they will cut off cattle's ears. I will command
them and they will change Allah's creation. Anyone who takes
satan as his protector in place of Allah has clearly lost everything.
He makes promises to them and fills them with false hopes. But
what satan promises them is nothing but delusion.(Qur'an, 4:119-
120)
Say: 'Are we to call on something besides Allah which can neither
help nor harm us, and to turn on our heels after Allah has guided
us, like someone the satans have lured away in the earth, leaving
him confused and stupefied, despite the fact that he has
companions calling him to guidance, saying, "Come with us!"?'
Say: 'Allah's guidance that is true guidance. We are commanded
to submit as Muslims to the Lord of all the worlds. (Qur'an, 6:71)
Stir up any of them you can with your voice and rally against them
your cavalry and your infantry and share with them in their
children and their wealth and make them promises! The promise
of satan is nothing but delusion. (Qur'an, 17:64)
They are like satan when he says to a human being, 'Disbelieve,'
and then when he becomes an unbeliever, says, 'I wash my hands
of you. Truly I fear Allah, the Lord of all the worlds.' (Qur'an,
59:16)
Children of Adam! Do not let satan tempt you into trouble as He
expelled your parents from the Garden, stripping them of their
covering and disclosing to them their private parts. He and his
tribe see you from where you do not see them. We have made the
satans friends of those who have no faith. (Qur'an, 7:27)
When satan made their actions appear good to them, saying, 'No
one will overcome you today for I am at your side.' But when the
two parties came in sight of one another, he turned right round on
his heels saying, 'I wash my hands of you. I see what you do not
see. I fear Allah. Allah is severe in retribution.' (Qur'an, 8:48)

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