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sent down before you, still desiring to turn to a Allah has provided for you and do not follow in
satanic source for judgement in spite of being or- the footsteps of Satan. He is an outright enemy to
dered to reject it? Satan wants to misguide them you. (6:142)
far away. (4:60) If only they had humbled themselves when Our
Those who believe fight in the Way of Allah. violent force came upon them! However, their
Those who disbelieve fight in the way of false hearts were hard and Satan made what they were
gods. So fight the friends of Satan! Satan’s schem- doing seem attractive to them. (6:43)
ing is always feeble. (4:76) When you see people engrossed in mockery of
When news of any matter reaches them they Our Signs, turn from them until they start to talk
spread it about, whether it is of a reassuring or of other things. And if Satan should ever cause
disquieting nature. If they had only referred it to you to forget, once you remember, do not stay
the Messenger and those in command among sitting with the wrongdoers. (6:68)
them, those among them able to discern the truth Say: ‘Are we to call on something besides Allah
about it would have had proper knowledge of it. which can neither help nor harm us, and to turn
If it were not for Allah’s favour to you and His on our heels after Allah has guided us, like some-
mercy, all but a very few of you would have fol- one the Satans have lured away in the earth,
lowed Satan. (4:83) leaving him confused and stupefied, despite the
(Satan said,) ‘I will lead them astray and fill them fact that he has companions calling him to guid-
with false hopes. I will command them and they ance, saying, "Come with us!"?’ Say: ‘Allah's
will cut off cattle’s ears. I will command them guidance, that is true guidance. We are com-
and they will change Allah’s creation.’ Anyone manded to submit as Muslims to the Lord of all
who takes Satan as his protector in place of Allah the worlds,’ (6:71)
has clearly lost everything. He makes promises to We created you and then formed you and then
them and fills them with false hopes. But what We said to the angels, ‘Prostrate before Adam,’
Satan promises them is nothing but delusion. and they prostrated–except for Diabolis. He was
(4:119-120) not among those who prostrated. He said, ‘What
You who believe! Wine and gambling, stone al- prevented you from prostrating when I com-
tars and divining arrows are filth from the handi- manded you to?’ He replied, ‘I am better than
work of Satan. Avoid them completely so that him. You created me from fire and You created
hopefully you will be successful. Satan wants to him from clay.’ He said, ‘Descend from Heaven.
stir up enmity and hatred between you by means It is not for you to be arrogant in it. So get out!
of wine and gambling, and to debar you from re- You are one of the abased.’ He said, ‘Grant me a
membrance of Allah and from prayer. Will you reprieve until the day they are raised up.’ He
not then give them up? (5:90-91) said, ‘You are one of the reprieved.’ He said, ‘By
In this way We have appointed as enemies to Your misguidance of me, I will lie in ambush for
every Prophet Satans from both mankind and them on your straight path. Then I will come at
from the jinn, who inspire each other with delu- them, from in front of them and behind them,
sions by means of specious words–if your Lord from their right and from their left. You will not
had willed, they would not have done it, so find most of them thankful.’ He said, ‘Get out of
abandon them and all they fabricate. (6:112) it, reviled and driven out. As for those of them
Do not eat anything over which the name of who follow you, I will fill up Hell with every one
Allah has not been mentioned. To do so is sheer of you.’ ‘Adam, live in the Garden, you and your
deviance. The Satans inspire their friends to dis- wife, and eat of it wherever you like. But do not
pute with you. If you obeyed them you would go near this tree lest you become wrongdoers.’
then be idolaters. (6:121) Then Satan whispered to them, disclosing to
And also animals for riding and for haulage and them their private parts that had been concealed
animals for slaughtering and for wool. Eat what from them. He said, ‘Your Lord has only forbid-
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