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76. What kind of a being is satan?
Satan is one of the jinn Allah created. After Allah created
Adam, who was the first human being, Allah ordered all the
angels to prostrate themselves before Adam. Only satan
among them did not obey Allah’s order, because he was
boastful and said:
My Lord, because You misled me, I will make things on
the earth seem good to mankind and I will mislead them
all, every one of them. (Surat al-Hijr: 39)
Satan, who was expelled out of the Sight of Allah, asked
Allah to give him time until the day of resurrection to keep all
of mankind away from Allah’s path and to misguide them all.
In the meantime, satan will try to cause people go astray from
Allah’s path and he will do his best to achieve this. Therefore,
satan is the greatest danger to the successful after life of
every human being and he is thus everyone’s greatest enemy.

77. How does satan reach people? By what
methods does he try to make them stray from
their course?

Allah mentions in the Qur’an that satan whispers evil
suggestions in people’s hearts. Believers are advised to
seek refuge in Allah “from the evil of the surreptitious
whisperer who whispers in people’s breasts.” (Surat an-
Nas: 4-5)
This is the most insidious tactic of satan. Most people do
not realize that the thoughts in their minds are from satan.
They think that all their thoughts are their own. For instance,
someone who is just learning religion is an important target for
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