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Satan's Tactics
blame me but blame yourselves. I cannot come to your aid
nor you to mine. I reject the way you associated me with
Allah before." The wrongdoers will have a painful punish-
ment. (Surah Ibrahim, 22)
A believer, who seeks to gain the pleasure, love, mercy and
Paradise of Allah, will not, of course, be deluded by any promise
with regards to the transient things of this world. Because, no degree
of repute he may attain in this world, property he may acquire, or
any blessing he might enjoy, are to him of any true importance.
These, he knows, will exist but only for a brief time, and no longer be
of any significance beyond his death.

He Inspires People to Harbor False Hopes and
Unfounded Concerns
Another method employed by Satan is to inspire people with
unsound concerns. He over exaggerates for them the significance of
unimportant events. Those who suffer from a sickness in their
hearts, and are weak in character, are easily influenced by these in-
sinuations. They regard every adverse outcome as part of a plot de-
signed against them. (Surat al-Munafiqun, 4) They will go as far as
to imagine that they were deceived even by the messenger. They are
habitually restless, anxious and indecisive. They are consumed with
concerns that would never even occur to a conscientious person:
[Satan said,] "I will lead them astray and fill them with
false hopes. I will command them and they will cut off cat-
tle's ears. I will command them and they will change
Allah's creation." Anyone who takes Satan as his confidant
in place of Allah has clearly lost all. He [Satan] makes

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