Worldly
Life… an Abode of Trial
To make the life of this world an abode
of trial it must include temptation and allurement, therefore Allah, all praise
and glory is to Him, kept the life of Satan as part of the temptation that man
will face in his worldly life. A trial from Allah to test the love for Him
within the hearts of His servants. Thus, whoever loves Allah, Almighty Allah
will protect him against the temptation and misguidance of Satan. But whoever
loves sin – Allah forbid – Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, will empower
against him the devils to increase him in sin and disbelief. Recite the Saying
of Allah, The Most Exalted (which means):
“Do you not see
that We have sent the devils upon the disbelievers, inciting them to [evil]
with [constant] incitement? So be not
impatient over them. We only count out to them a [limited] number.” (Maryam,
19: 83-84)
So, Allah, all praise and glory is to
Him, keeps man with those whom he loves. If man loves Allah, Blessed and
Exalted is He, he will surely be with Allah and Allah will save him from all
evil and will drive the devils away from him and will protect him against sin
and will open before him the doors to goodness. But if man loves Satan, Allah
will leave him to the devils that are His enemies, driving him to sin and
making his life a continuous misery and man will heap more sins upon his sins
and in the end he will only take with him his evil deeds.
Thus, temptation by Satan was necessary
to complete the life experience on the earth, so that Allah puts His servants
through a true trial of faith and tests what is within their hearts. There had
to be a true experience that man goes through in his life and not just a
theoretical one. Talk is one thing and reality is another. For you may say “I will surely do such and such things” and when the time of
doing comes you do nothing.
When man shouldered the trust of
showing obedience to Allah, he promised to fulfill it perfectly but when came
the time of performance he was attracted by worldly life and its temptation and
allurement, and he followed Satan and forgot his promise to Allah and forgot
His Law.
Therefore, no one should think that
Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, just answered an invocation of Satan,
but it was for sake of the law that Allah had decreed for worldly life and the
trials and tests He prepared for the worldly life of mankind He thus willed to
prefect the whole picture.
Thus, the answer agreed with the Will
of Allah, all glory is to Him, and was not in response to Satan’s demand of
living till Resurrection Day so that worldly temptation continues to the last
moment and the trial mankind is put through continues till Resurrection Day.
When Allah, all praise and glory is to
Him, decreed that Satan should remain till Resurrection Day, pride filled him
once again and he felt that this was his chance to revenge on Adam and his
offspring. The Truth [Al-Haqq: one the Beautiful Names of Allah], be ever
gloried His Majesty and Might, relates to us in the Noble Qur’an what means:
“[Satan] said,
‘Because You have put me in error, I will surely sit in wait for them on Your
straight path.’” (Al-A‘râf, 7: 16)
But how did Satan enter the door of
tempting mankind? And with what did he enter? We learn how by reading the
glorious Ayah that quotes Satan’s words to the Lord of Majesty saying (what
means):
“[Iblees] said,
‘By your might, I will surely mislead them all.” (Sâd, 38: 82).
He entered through the door of the
Might of Allah, all praise and glory is to Him; that Allah is All-Mighty and
superbly beyond need of any of His creatures. In other words, Satan said: O
Lord, if you needed them to be obedient, I could not have led astray any of
them, but You are All-Mighty, richly above all Your creatures. Their obedience
adds nothing to Your Kingdom and their disobedience detracts nothing from Your
Kingdom, thus by Your Might I will lead them all astray, I will adorn for them
evil and I will sit in wait against them on every straight path. As to crooked
paths no need for the devils to sit on them. For instance, the devil does not
sit at the doors of bars nor at the dens of vice, for the people who frequent
such places have already become the soldiers of Satan, and thus in no need of
further temptation or evil whispering.
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