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Satan's Tactics
Those who are not believers, however, assume that the world is
an uncontrolled, a haphazard series of events and convergence of
people. Satan easily inspires fear into these hearts. For them, every-
thing they encounter is indecipherable, and all outcomes unclear.
They adore many idols, instead of Allah, out of their fear of death, of
poverty, or of the future.
Satan's inciting "fear" affects those who live amongst the believ-
ers, but who are sick at heart. This fear, which completely consumes
them whenever they are confronted with some difficulty on the path
of Allah, develops in them a lack of conscientiousness. For example,
the mental condition of a people taken with fear, during a battle, is
described in the Qur'an:
Those who believe say, "If only a sura could be sent down."
But when a straightforward sura is sent down and fighting
is mentioned in it, you see those with sickness in their
hearts looking at you with the look of someone about to
faint from fear of death… (Surah Muhammad, 20)
One who has submitted to Allah surrenders to his destiny and
fully entrusting himself to Him. He is completely free of fear, and by
the awe in him inspired by submission to Allah, he fears no other
power but Him.
What must not be forgotten here, however, is that the courage
of the believers is different from the unconscious and irrational
courage of unbelievers. This disposition is one which derives from
complete trust in the reality of fate, and the confidence which comes
from submission to Allah. It cannot be imitated by those who do not
truly believe. There are several examples in the Qur'an of this
courage of the believers.
For instance, when the Prophet Musa (as), and those who fol-
lowed him, were trapped between Pharaoh's army and the sea,

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