Allah, praise and glory is to Him,
wants us to know that the trial of Satan expels us from the blessing of
assignment (enjoined duties) that would lead us to the Paradise of Eternity in
the Hereafter. Afterwards, Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, says (what means):
“Indeed, he sees
you, he and his tribe, from where you do not see them.” (Al-A‘râf, 7: 27)
This part of the Ayah means that the
devil sees us but we do not see him, and that gives him the power of exercising
temptation. Because as long as we cannot see him, we cannot know from where he
will come or notice that he is whispering evil to us.
But did Allah, Blessed and Exalted is
He, desert us alone with Satan, to lure us and lead us astray? Or did He create
protection for us?
By His Justice, Allah, be ever gloried
His Majesty and Might, granted us protection against diabolic insinuations and
from all this evil. This protection can only be through close abidance by the
Law of Allah. Whoever adheres firmly and sincerely to the Law of Allah, the
devil will never be able to reach him nor tempt him. Therefore, we find a
confession of Satan that he cannot approach those who are loyal to Allah and
hold fast to His Law, because such people are protected against him by their
abidance by the Law of Allah in the glorious Ayah saying (what means):
“[Iblees] said,
‘By your might, I will surely mislead them all, except, among them, Your chosen
servants.’” (Sâd, 38: 82-83)
Then, comes the Saying of Allah,
Blessed and Exalted is He, which means:
“Indeed, My
servants – no authority will you have over them, except those who follow you of
the deviators.” (Al-Hijr, 15: 42)
Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, has
guaranteed protection to every servant who sincerely believe in Him and who
sincerely worship Him. Allah, The Most Exalted and Ever-Majestic, guards the
believers against satanic temptation. Allah, all praise and glory is to Him,
says about the description of the believer (what means):
“Indeed, those who
fear Allah – when an evil thought comes to them from Satan, they remember
[Allah] and at once they have insight.” (Al-A‘râf, 7: 201)
This means that when Satan comes to the
pious, believing servants of Allah, Allah never leaves them, but He makes them
remember His Law, only then do they see the truth and they return to closely
following the Law. As if the one who follows the devil is like the blind, who
sees nothing thus move confusedly, stumbling and falling. Satan strives to
blind the sight and insight, to keep us from seeing the truth and the Signs of
Allah in His Universe, and be only in the dark.
The Truth, Blessed and Exalted is He,
presents to us this picture while depicting to us the followers of Satan in the
Hereafter in the Ayah saying (what means):
“He will say, ‘My
Lord, why have you raised me blind while I was [once] seeing?’ [Allah] will
say, ‘Thus did Our signs come to you, and you forgot them; and thus will you
this Day be forgotten.’” (Tâ-Hâ, 20: 125-126)
Thus, the mission of Satan is to make
people blind to the Signs of Allah in the universe and deprive them from
perceiving the greatness or mightiness of The Creator, all praise and glory is
to Him. Blindness to these signs makes man forget his submissiveness to Allah
and makes him regard worldly life as an end and not only as a means to the
Hereafter. This way man tries to take from worldly life all he can, be it
lawfully or unlawfully. For as long as there is only worldly life for him, his
goal is to seize of it all it can offer either lawfully or unlawfully. The
thing most important for him and his gauge of success is what he realizes of
desires and whims, thefts and bribes etc.
Such a group of people when comes to
the Hereafter, Allah raises them up blind, seeing nothing, stumbling and
falling. When they shall ask about the reason of this blindness after being
endowed with eyesight in worldly life, Allah will answer them saying that they
were surely blind in worldly life. They truly had eyes but they did not see
with them the proofs, evidences, signs, revelations of Allah is His Universe,
therefore they gave free reign to sin and disbelief. And as they forgot the
Signs of Allah in the life of this world, Allah, all praise and glory is to
Him, will forget them in the Hereafter, so they will not attain His Mercy on
that Day. Therefore, Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, says (what means):
“And whoever is
blind in this [life] will be blind in the Hereafter and more astray in way.”
(Al-Isrâ’, 17: 72)
Blindness in this glorious Ayah does
not mean loss of sight but rather means loss of insight by which man sees the
Signs of Allah that urge him to belief and obedience to the Divine Law.
From the Mercy of Allah is that He
exposed before us the ways of Satan and how he lures mankind, and He has
clarified how Satan stealthily steals in the human soul and the wiles by which
he leads man into error. Allah has clarified all this to warn us against
satanic inlets into the human soul in order to bar all these inlets so that
Satan never approaches our souls….so what are these inlets?
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