Searching
For Weakness
Hence, the faces of temptations are
versatile, if Satan found man strictly observing the Prayers and paying the
Zakah and is weak before women for instance, he approaches him from that side
and keeps adoring to him unchaste women, evilly insinuating to him, till he
fall into adultery or fornication and thereby he commits one of the major sins.
And if the believer is strong in all
these respects Satan creeps to him and adorns to him drinking intoxicants, or
gambling, or bad company, or backbiting…the important thing is that Satan
always approaches man from his points of weakness, leaving the points where he
shows firmness.
Never think that when the devil tempts
man, he comes to him from an evil path that man may recoil from, but rather
Satan cloaks this evil in a delusive guise that makes it appear favorable to
the self, easy to do and is desirable.
Thus, if man suffers from straitened
circumstances, Satan starts bedecking to him stealing. He first whispers to him
that it is a simple process that will go smoothly and no one will discover it.
Like telling him trip that man, so that when he falls pretend that you are
helping him get up, and while unconscious, steal his wallet.
Satan here tends to simplify matters to
man, always masking evil. He thus would incite man to take ill-gotten money,
like in the case of a man working as a cashier, he whispers to him that he
needs the money in his treasury and that it will only be a loan, which he would
pay back once conditions improve. The cashier is thus driven to take unlawful
money, and he fails to pay it back.
Satan is not a fool to presents evil to
you as evil, in a way that reminds you of the torment that would be inflicted
on you in worldly life and in the Hereafter, but he rather deludes you into
believing that it is good to you, for Satan circulates in the human body as
blood circulates in it.
Out of Allah’s Mercy, all praise and
glory is to Him, is that He disclosed to us Satan’s stratagems, so that we can
protect ourselves against him. Satan never forgoes seducing you, as long as you
are obedient. He tries hard to sneak to you from one side after the other till
he pushes you into sinning, except if you seek refuge with Allah always and beg
His Help, for he can never thus reach you and can never have any power over
you.
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