Allah, all praise and glory is to Him,
has explained to us in the Noble Qur’an what the devil do to his companion, in
the glorious Ayah saying (what means):
“For he had said,
‘I will surely take from among Your servants a specific portion. And I will mislead
them, and I will arouse in them [sinful] desires, and I will command them so
they will slit the ears of cattle, and I will command them so they will change
the creation of Allah.’ And whoever takes Satan as an ally instead of Allah has
certainly sustained a clear loss. Satan promises them and arouses desire in
them. But Satan does not promise them except delusion.” [An-Nisâ’, 4:118-120]
That is what the devil do to his
companions: first he misleads them,
meaning to remove them away from the true doctrine, and corrupt this doctrine
for them. As for the saying of Satan: “I will arouse in them false desires”,
the devil makes sins look attractive in the eyes of man, thus he craves to
commit them. He deludes him into thinking that they are not sins, but rather a
blessing. Regarding the matter of
cattle, and changing the creation of Allah, all praise and glory is to Him: the
perfection of creation is what Allah has created; every creature of Allah has a
mission in life, and each is created to find easy the performance of its
mission, thus changing creation corrupts this mission.
Those who used to slit the ears of
cattle based on the belief that they were dedicated to the idols and at their
service, had thus removed the creation of Allah from its mission, for cattle
are created to be man’s property: on their backs he can carry his burdens, eat
from their meat, make use of their leather and wool, but they are of no avail
to the idols. It is as if the devil craves to diverge the creation of Allah
from the course they were created for, and in order to do so, he employs his
companions.
If we look into our contemporary time,
we find some experiments that bring the leg of a dog and transplant it in the
body of a frog, and such sorts of experiments, which is of no avail to humanity; what can humanity benefit from a
frog with a dog’s leg, the frog was created for a certain mission in worldly
life, and being created the way they are is for the perfection of fulfilling
its mission. But man came to spoil such mission, without realizing anything,
the same applies to all the experiments that are done to produce a maimed human
being, these experiments do nothing but corrupt the creation of Allah, to no
avail. The same applies to all forms of abuse that occur to dominate the human
mind, which rather spoils its mission in the universe.
In order to reveal to us the triviality
of what Satan can do, Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, informs us that the
devil uses the weapon of fear to enslave man, saying (what means):
“That is only
Satan who frightens [you] of his supporters. So fear them not, but fear Me, if
you are [indeed] believers.” [Âl-‘Imrân, 3: 175]
But how does the devil dominate man
through fear? If man gives charity, the devil will frighten him of poverty; if
he wants to give a truthful testimony, he will intimidate him by the despotism
of his unjust employers; if he wants to go to perform prayers, he will frighten
him with the idea that he will lose such and such worldly interests; if he
fights for the Cause of Allah, the devil will frighten him with the power of
the disbelievers, casting into his heart the fear of getting killed at the
beginning of the battle; if he wants to perform benevolent deeds, the devil
will cast into him fears of wasting his time and interests; even if he wants to
forbid people from doing evil, the devil will cast into him the fear that he
would be harmed.
Thus, any benevolent act that occurs to
the self, Satan frightens man away from doing it, by scaring him with the idea
that it will get him into trouble; whether this trouble be in his wealth, his
self, his children, job, trade, or any other worldly concern. Through this
weapon, namely that of fear, Satan casts terror into the human self as regards
good deeds.
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