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SATAN: THE SWORN ENEMY OF MANKIND
when the two parties came in sight of one another, he turned
right round on his heels saying, "I wash my hands of you. I
see what you do not see. I fear Allah. Allah is severe in retri-
bution." (Surat al-Anfal, 48)
Satan does not in truth seek what is best for those who believe
in him. Thus, he tries to ensure that all, believer or unbeliever, go to
Hell. Presenting himself as a trusted friend is a tactic by which he
can incite one people against another, and generally cause strife and
evil. After achieving his objective, though, he abandons those, who-
ever they may be, who took him as their friend.
Racists are another example of a type of unbeliever influenced
by Satan. Wherever you will find them in the world, racist individu-
als or societies regard themselves superior to others, for no valid
reason at all. A rage has been fomented in them. Generally, through
the effectiveness of Satan's inducements, they devote their lives for
the sake of something they do not even fully understand. Attention
is drawn in the Qur'an to the anger incited in racists:
Those who disbelieve filled their hearts with fanatical
rage—the fanatical rage of the Time of Ignorance—and
Allah sent down serenity to His Messenger and to the be-
lievers, and bound them to the expression of heedfulness
which they had most right to and were most entitled to.
Allah has knowledge of all things. (Surat al-Fath, 26)
The way racists harbor a hatred for others, by regarding them-
selves superior, brings to mind another feature of Satan which we
have already mentioned. Here, the mentality of Satan, who hated
the Prophet Adam (as) because he regarded himself superior to him,
can be recognized as the essential philosophy of the racists. At the
source of the perverted basis by which racist societies regard them-

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