No
Punishment Because of Coercion
Among the signs of the Endless Mercy of
Allah upon His servants is the fact that He remits any deed man may commit
under coercion, for the justice of judgment. Consequently, on the Day of
Judgment man will not be called to account for whatever he is forced to do
against his will, in conformity with the Saying of Allah, all praise and glory
is to Him, (which means):
“Whoever disbelieves in Allah after his belief… except for
one who is forced (to renounce his religion) while his heart is secure in
faith.” [An-Nahl, 16: 106]
Hence, the one who is forced to declare
disbelief, while his heart is a believer, will not be called to account for
this. Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, has made the domain of accountability –
which is what the heart believes – impossible to yield to any coercion. For you
can force a man to do what you want against his will, but you can never force
his heart to show you love, while it hates you, neither can you compel a heart
to believe in what it rejects to believe in.
Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He,
informs us that the devil has no sway whatsoever over man, for sway can either
be a coercive one, meaning to force man into doing something against himself by
force, or it can be the sway of persuasion, where he can prevail on man to do
something, so he does it voluntarily. But the devil holds neither the sway of
coercion nor the sway of persuasion, he rather – as we have previously said –
sneaks to man from the points of his weakness, thus adorning to him what the
self yearns to, till he falls into sin. The glorious Ayah says:
“I cannot be
called to your aid, nor can you be called to my aid.” [Ibrahîm, 14: 22]
Satan says that he does own the power
to eliminate the reasons behind their screaming out of torture, to which he
himself together with them is going. Then he disowns those who disbelieved because
of his seduction, he tries to shirk his responsibility, saying as the Noble
Qur’an relates, what means:
“Indeed, I deny
your association of me (with Allah) before.” [Ibrahîm, 14: 22]
Hence, the first among Satan’s soldiers
is ego, which makes man think he can achieve what he desires independently, and
makes him worship himself, his mind, or means, or he thinks that he is more
capable of legislating than Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, thereof he
abandons the Doctrine of Allah, thus making his own laws, which they call
positive law and so forth. We should know that Satan has material soldiers, who
are Shayâtin (devils) from among mankind and jinn. They are those who have
followed Satan, and adopted his doctrine, fighting for the sake of falsehood,
combating sedtruth, and deriding the believers. Concerning those people, Allah,
all praise and glory is to Him, says (what means):
“Satan has
overcome them and made them forget the remembrance of Allah. Those are the
party of Satan. Unquestionably, the party of Satan – they will be the losers.”
[Al-Mujâdilah, 58: 19]
The party of Satan are those who try to
spread atheism, resisting any call of truth, standing against Divine Messages,
shunning people away from them, to the extent of waging war, and this in
conformity with the Saying of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, (which means):
“Those who believe
fight in the cause of Allah, and those who disbelieve fight in the cause of
Tâghut So fight against the allies of Satan. Indeed, the plot of Satan has ever
been weak.” [An-Nisâ’, 4: 76]
As we have said there are devils from
among mankind and jinn, as for those among mankind, they are the ones whom
Satan has become their companion, that is to say closely associated with man.
When Satan is close to a man and is adhering to him, it is a sign that this man
has reached the utmost degree of sinning, and as long as the devil becomes an
intimate companion to a person, he will never push him to goodness, but rather
he will always push him towards evil, for he is an evil companion.
Such is the case with all evil
companions, they aid one another and prop up each other’s heart to commit
iniquity. One sees them unite in sinning, gather each night in a house where
they drink liquors, commit adultery and all what incurs the Anger of Allah.
Sinning binds them together with a firm bond in worldly life, but in the
Hereafter things alter, and they turn enemies to one another.
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