Satan in The Battle of Badr - Mankind and Satan

Satan in The Battle of Badr

Let us shed light on the way Satan instigated the disbelievers to fight the believers during the Battle of Badr: the Noble Qur’an relates to us this story through the glorious Ayah saying (what means):

“And [remember] when Satan made their deeds pleasing to them and said, ‘No one can overcome you today from among the people, and indeed, I am your protector.’ But when the two armies sighted each other, he turned on his heels and said, ‘Indeed, I am disassociated from you. Indeed, I see what you do not see; indeed I fear Allah. And Allah is severe in penalty.’” [Al-Anfâl, 8: 48]

That was the role that Satan played during the Battle of Badr, he started by sowing the seeds of arrogance in the hearts of the disbelievers, telling them:You will defeat and triumph over the Muslims, you are great in number and powerfully equipped; compared to you they are few, you will definitely conquer them, and I am with you to champion you.

He kept on swelling their souls with vanity, beguiling them with the illusory belief that they are strong and that they are absolutely victorious, till they believed him and set off to fight the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) and the believers. 

When the disbelievers reached the battlefield and fighting became inevitable, Satan looked and saw the power of faith, and the mightiness of the believers, and the support that Allah gave them, thereof he scrammed away, leaving behind his allies, whom he promised before that none would overcome them. He thus fled fast and away, saying as the Noble Qu’an relates (what means):

“Indeed, I see what you do not see; indeed I fear Allah. And Allah is severe in penalty.” 
[Al-Anfâl, 8: 48]

Some say how come that the devil says: “I fear Allah”, and if he really does fear Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, why does he sin? And why this persistence in sinning? And what can scare Satan, while he is already shut out from the Mercy of Allah, damned, outcast, and dwelling eternally in Hell, together with all his followers?

The answer is that Satan fears the torment awaiting him in the Hereafter, such fear overwhelms him, despite all what he commits in worldly life. He disavows all sins committed through him; he tries to wash his hands of any responsibility for a sin before Allah. Therefore, The Truth, Blessed and Exalted is He, says (what means):

“[The hypocrites are] like the example of Satan when he says to man, ‘Disbelieve.’ But when he disbelieves, he says, ‘Indeed, I am disassociated from you. Indeed, I fear Allah, Lord of the worlds.’” [Al-Hashr, 59: 16]

In this manner Satan would try to free himself of any responsibility for luring mankind into disbelief and sin. Even on Resurrection Day when Satan shall stand in the presence of Allah he will cast the blame on man, trying to shirk his responsibility. The Truth, all praise and glory is to Him, gives us a picture of this scene in His Saying (what means):

“And Satan will say when the matter has been concluded, ‘Indeed, Allah had promised you the promise of truth. And I promised you, but I betrayed you. But I had no authority over you except that I invited you, and you responded to me. So do not blame me; but blame yourselves. I cannot be called to your aid, nor can you be called to my aid. Indeed, I deny your association of me [with Allah] before. Indeed, for the wrongdoers is a painful punishment.’” [Ibrahîm, 14: 22]

Satan, who decks out fair to people committing all kinds of sins and atheism, comes on the Day of Judgment disavowing what he has done, trying to cast all the blame on man, saying: “I had no authority over you except that I called you, so you responded to me, and had not your selves been inclined to disbelieving and committing sins, I would not have been able to derive you into disobeying Allah. Hence blame me not, for you have no one to blame but yourselves, because you have given ears to my whisperings, while I had no subjugating power over you to force you to sin”, which is true, because the devil does not have the power to force man into disobeying Allah, Whose Majesty reigns Supreme.

Source: (Book) Mankind and Satan

CHAPTER SIX - SATAN AND HIS SOLDIERS - Mankind and Satan

Chapters Six

Satan And His Soldiers

In order to have a full picture, one should know that Satan has his soldiers: physical ones from mankind and jinn, and other abstract soldiers he employs to mislead people.

But before we proceed with our talk and in order to have a thorough view, we should know that neither Satan, nor his soldiers go beyond the compass of the Decree of Allah that is dominant in His universe. Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, has given us a practical proof, and that by subjugating the devils, made of fire, to a human Prophet, Solomon (Sulaimân, peace be upon him). He made them follow his orders, and dare not contradict him. Concerning this, The Truth, Blessed and Exalted be He, says (what means):

“And among the jinn were those who worked for him by the permission of his Lord. And whoever deviated among them from Our command – We will make him taste of the punishment of the Blaze.” [Saba’, 34: 12]

Hence Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, has subdued jinn – both the devil and the good jinn – as we have previously said – to a man made of clay, Solomon (peace be upon him). And if The Truth, all praise and glory is to Him, wanted to subjugate the devils to us, He would do so; for Allah answered the supplication of Solomon (peace be upon him) when he invoked Him asking for a kingdom such as shall not belong to any other after him, as the glorious Ayah relates (what means):

“He said, ‘My Lord, forgive me and grant me a kingdom such as will not belong to anyone after me. Indeed, You are the Bestower.’ So We subjected to him the wind blowing by his command, gently, wherever he directed, and [also] the devils [of jinn] – every builder and diver, and others bound together in shackles.” [Sâd, 38: 35-38]

Therefore, when Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, wanted to subjugate the devils to mankind He did so compulsorily, against their will. Never think that what the devils commit on earth is against the Will of Allah in His universe, but as we have previously said it complements the role of worldly life as a place of temptation, strife, and faith; a place where believers triumph over the lure of the devil through their striving and faith, thus meriting Paradise.

As we have previously said Satan has both material and immaterial soldiers, one of his gravest abstract soldiers is arrogance; for Satan keeps slinking around man till he casts into his heart physical and moral arrogance, and tries to fill him with pride at his wealth, knowledge, strength, or whatever. The chief concern is to make man swell with conceit, thus falsely think that he has dispensed with Allah, Blessed and Exalted be He, attributing full credit to himself, hence he falls into sin and atheism.

Source: (Book) Mankind and Satan

Complementarity….Not Repetition - Mankind and Satan

Complementarity…. Not Repetition

Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, created the universe on the basis of complementarity and not repetition. Therefore, talents and capabilities varied and man achieved progress in the universe. Logic would have dictated that the world should live comfortably and peacefully, because progress and development offered man the greatest fruits with the least effort and in the shortest time.

Based on this reality is the world we are living in a rational one? No, we find the richest country in the world and the best as regards economic progress is the one teeming with psychological disorders as anxiety, sadness, depression, dejection, nervous tension, perversion and suicide. That is because the world we are complaining of today does not live according to the Law of Allah but according to desires and satanic allure. Therefore, the world is afflicted with hysterics, conflict, stumbling and falling. Truly, the world and its events looks now as a substantiation of the Saying of The Most Exalted, which means:            

“Will not stand except as one whom the devil has prostrated by (his) touch will stand.” (Al-Baqarah, 2: 275)

 

Why then do not the thinkers investigate the secret of this misery? Why do not they ask themselves about the cause behind all this wretchedness when they have from the means of material progress what may guarantee happiness to mankind! Why have not they searched when they had to?

And if the calamity is general it excludes neither an underdeveloped nor a developed country but it reigns in all countries. Therefore, it must have a common cause and investigation must lead us to the conclusion that the world has strayed from the Law of Allah, thus worldly life became to us an end and not only a means. Also, wealth became our purpose and not only a necessary means for the movement of life and making the earth a prosperous place. For truly, wealth all belong to Allah Alone. None possesses it and when we die we shall leave worldly wealth to worldly life, so why then have people distorted its use and made it a goal itself? The answer in words: it is detachment from the Law of Allah.

Worldly life cannot be an end, first because it is a limited period that will surely end; second because its enjoyments are but little and third because staying in it is uncertain because you can not guarantee to live the next hour.

If we want to specify Satan’s mission in a few words, its basis is to make us forget that Allah exists and that He is All-Hearing, All-Seeing. Man never steals, commits adultery or fornication, or kill while bringing to mind that Allah surely sees him and that He will punishes him for his crime. Had he remembered the punishment at the commission of the crime, he would have never dared. But Satan’s mission is to make us forget that Allah exists, for the one who commits a sin behind closed doors imagine that as long as he is concealed from people’s eyes then no one sees him and forgets that Allah hears and sees and nothing whatsoever is hidden from Him.

At the end of this chapter we say: the way of Satan is to discover the weak points of man to pierce through. He portrays sin in a picture pleasing and agreeable to the soul, enveloping it in fake goodness. His chief concern is to entice the servants obedient to Allah, and he never leaves them. He incites man with provoking thoughts. He whispers to man what facilitates sinning. He adorns disobedience in his eyes. And if he overmasters man he touches him and causes him to lose the harmony of his movements thus his behavior turn into a kind of hysterics and floundering. Satan has many wiles of temptations but Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, helps His believing servants resist Satan and disobey him, and He leaves the disbelieving servants to Satan to make them sin more and go further astray. Allah, be ever gloried His Majesty and Might, neither helps nor guides a disbeliever in Him.

Source: (Book) Mankind and Satan