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The Seeker’s Guide
Satanic temptations give a person the opportunity to
develop resilience and patience by not succumbing to
them. According to a verse of the Quran, man is asked
to seek refuge from the temptation caused by both Satan
and man’s own soul. The verse is as follows:
Say, ‘I seek refuge in the Lord of people, the
King of people, the God of people, from
the mischief of every sneaking whisperer,
who whispers into the hearts of people,
from jinn and men.’ (Quran 114: 1-6)
8 If only belief in Allah grants
salvation, then how do Muslims think
that one could enter heaven before
Muhammad and Islam existed?
od is the same as He was before the coming of the
GProphet Muhammad. The word ‘Allah’ was used by the
Arabs even before the advent of Islam, that is, even before
the revelation of the Quran. Muhammad was not the
first prophet of Islam, rather he was the last. Muhammad
preached the same religion, as all the prophets who came
before him, for example, Adam, Noah, Abraham, Jesus,
Moses, etc. This has been mentioned in a verse in the
Quran:
God has ordained for you the same religion
which He enjoined on Noah, and which
We have revealed to you, and which We
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