Satan approaches man from all directions, aiming to distract him from the path of Allah. He plays various tricks on man in order to achieve his goal. Satanic suggestion is one of these tricks. Satanic suggestions are delusions, doubts cast in the heart, vain hopes, disturbing thoughts or words whispered by satan in order to keep people occupied with vain things, and to divert them from matters that they really should be preoccupied with. This characteristic of satan is related in the Qur’an as follows:
Satan whispers to man against the Qur’an, desiring to prevent him from thinking soundly and to keep him occupied with illusions about his religion that will be harmful to him both in this world and in the Hereafter. He attempts to cause the person to lose his self-confidence by the influence of senseless and inconsistent ideas projected as the person’s own thoughts. One who does not hold to the Qur’an has no protection against this trick of satan, and becomes distracted by his whisperings and starts to waver. These whispers corrupt one’s knowledge of religion, and causes the individual to consider Allah in a manner inappropriate to His exaltedness and causes him to be in continual doubt. As a result of this, instead of pondering on the greatness of Allah and on the meaning of his life in the world, he wastes his time with things that are of no benefit either to himself or to other people. Consequently, satan achieves success with this person, whose unawareness of the Qur’an and remoteness from Islamic morals lead him to endless punishment. It is stated in the Qur’an that unbelievers and wrongdoers are always susceptible to the influence of satan, and act under the direction of his whisperings:
What is the provoking whisper of satan?
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