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The Sincerity Of True Believers

advance against unfounded concerns, vain desires and
deceitful ruses of the devil. As declared in the verse, "Those
who believe fight in the Way of Allah. Those who
disbelieve fight in the way of false gods. So fight the
friends of Satan! Satan’s scheming is always feeble." (Surat
an-Nisa’: 76), the strategy of the devil is weak and is
comprised merely of hollow deceptions. True believers
comprehend that this whispering voice is that of Satan and
immediately seek refuge in Allah as related in the following

verse,
If an evil impulse from Satan provokes you, seek refuge
in Allah. He is All-Hearing, All-Seeing. As for those
who do their duty, when they are bothered by visitors
from Satan, they remember and immediately see
clearly. (Surat al-A’raf: 200-201)
As soon as they find refuge in Allah, they become capable
of interpreting the events in the light of the Qur’an. They
acquire an understanding aiding them to distinguish right
from the wrong. Therefore, the false imputations of the devil
fail due to the powerful faith of true believers.
Likewise, as the Qur’an underlines in the following verse,
Satan exercises no authority over true believers who put their
trust and faith in Allah, and who take Allah as their only
Guardian:

But as for My servants, you will not have any authority
over them. Your Lord suffices as a guardian. (Surat al-
Isra’: 65)
As mentioned in the Qur’an, Satan is influential over
those guarded by him, and those who associate others as
divinities beside Allah: