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Those Unaware of the Influence of Satan: Societies of the Ignorant
selves as superior, lies the delusion of the superiority of their physi-
cal attributes, history, ancestry and lineage. Upon more careful ex-
amination, we may note that claiming one is superior to others on
the basis of one's lineage is parallel to the errant logic of Satan ac-
cording to which fire is superior to clay.

Those to Whom Satan Portrays Their Perversions
As Attractive
Unbelievers and idolaters become passionately devoted to the su-
perstitions they prefer over the true religion. Whatever the ideology or
idea, those who believe in these superstitions have actually embarked
on the road to Hell, which Satan had embellished for them.
This embellishment made by Satan has become so attractive to the
unbelievers that, when duped by it, they come to believe themselves
on the true path, and become obstinately committed to their perver-
sions. The influence on people of the attractiveness effected by Satan
for a particular religion, in the time of the Prophet Sulayman (as), has
been revealed as follows in the Qur'an:
[The hoopoe said,] "I found both her [Queen of Sheba] and
her people prostrating to the sun instead of Allah. Satan has
made their actions seem good to them and debarred them
from the Way so they are not guided." (Surat an-Naml, 24)
This verse refers to a community of Sun-worshippers, and it has
been revealed that it was Satan who had made this perversion appear
attractive to them. Even if some in the modern world do not worship
the Sun, they nevertheless are still followers of whichever false system
or ideology they are blindly devoted to. The similarity between the
Sun-worshipers of the time of the Prophet Sulayman (as), and those
who abandon Islam in the present time and turn towards man-made

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