Allah
Championed His Messengers
As for Mûsâ (peace be upon him), he was
not yet commissioned for Prophethood when he struck the man with his fist and
killed him but within him was faith and fear of God, thus he immediately
realized that what he committed was from Satan’s doing, thus he turned in
repentance to Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, begging His Forgiveness.
As for Yûsuf (peace be upon him), the
Saying of the Truth, Blessed and Exalted is He, (which means): “But Satan made
him forget the mention [to] his master” can have two possible meanings: the first is
that the one who got out of prison, was the one whom the devil made him forget
mentioning Yûsuf to Al-Aziz , and ask him to set him out of prison, thus he
(Yûsuf) stayed in the prison for a few more years, or it was Yûsuf who forgot.
But the stronger meaning is the first.
What substantiates the first meaning is
that Yûsuf asked from that person to mention him to his lord - the king, whom
he would go to serve – and to tell him that there was an aggrieved man in
prison. This serves to clarify that the glorious Ayah does not mean that Satan
made Yûsuf forget remembering Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He.
When Ayûb (peace be upon him) invoked
Allah saying: “Indeed, Satan has touched me with hardship and torment” , he was complaining
to His Lord that Satan was whispering to him, telling him: “How come while you are a prophet to get inflicted with such
tribulations? How come you fall ill and all this befalls you, from losing your
children, and the disobedience of your wife, and such sorts of afflictions,
should not Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, honor you!” But Ayûb (peace be
upon him), who got spiritually hurt by the whisperings of Satan, did not pay
heed to Satan, but he rather turned to Allah, all praise and glory is to Him,
in supplication, begging Him to relieve him of what he was suffering from,
thereupon Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, answered his supplications.
Furthermore, we should also point out
to the Hadith of the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him
peace) in which he said: “Satan circulates in the human being as
blood circulates in the body.” Some orientalists
try to cast doubts concerning this hadith, we say to those skeptics, who try to
find a gap through which they can spit out their venoms and never will they
succeed: many components run through blood, among which are iron, phosphate, calcium,
and other components revealed by modern analysis, even microbes and germs –
which are material bodies – they penetrate the skin and infuse in the blood,
where they remain during their incubation period till they reproduce, and
battles occur between them and the white blood cells. As for the devil, he is
not created from clay, but he is rather created from a material far more
transparent, that is extremely fine and delicate, how come then that we find it
hard to believe that he penetrates the skin, and circulates with the blood, as
many other solid substances, which we cannot feel them.
We ask Allah to protect us from
sinning, and not to make a way for Satan over our hearts.
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