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BASIC TENETS OF ISLAM

to test, and endowed him with the ability and authority to
call mankind to disbelief. Allah's address to satan is related
in the Qur'an:

He (Allah) said, "Get out! you are accursed!

My curse is upon you until the Day of Reckoning."
He (satan) said, "My Lord, grant me a reprieve until the
Day they are raised again." He said, "You are among the
reprieved until the Day whose time is known."

He said, "By Your might, I will mislead all of them
except for Your chosen servants among them."

He said, "By the truth - and I speak the truth -
I will fill up hell with you and every one of them who
follows you." (Surah Sâd: 77-85)

Just as man is, satan is also entirely under Allah's control,
and subjected to His Will. He is not a being possessing a will
apart from and independent of Allah; he can neither make
such decisions nor carry them out. In the trial set for human
beings in this life, he is merely a being that is expected to

distinguish the righteous from the corrupt.

FALSE BELIEFS ABOUT ALLAH

The Torah and the Gospel, the earlier revelations from
Allah, have lost their original authenticity, since in time the
words and interpolations of man have been incorporated

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