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Chapter 18

Devils and their Activities

1. Have you noticed? From the start of Man's creation, this enemy (Satan) has attached himself to our holy ancestors and is, even to this instant, with their descendants. Up to the necessary extent, Almighty God made Mankind aware of the hostilities of this inner enemy (Satan), through His Prophets and Messengers (peace be upon them). The Prophet Muhammad, (peace be upon him), has also stated extensible explanations about this issue. Unfortunately, due to co-operations of Ego and imposture of this enemy of God, people have rarely perceived them.

2. Have you noticed? Satan is Man's enemy; he is, however, the enemy of Man's drawing nearer to Glorious God. If, Satan could succeed, he would put extensive efforts in rendering futile the deeds and in annihilating the faith. But, if nothing is achieved, then Satan creates obstacles on the person's spiritual behavior¹ concerning nearness with Glorious God. These kinds of actions are the necessary purpose of Satan.

3. Have you noticed? The enemy of the inner powers or the disrupter of servant's path of union with Almighty God, is Satan. Besides, being impossible for us to see this being, at the initial states, he takes reside in Heart. By using the egoistic and sensual forces, and other immoral desires, he embezzles to the Computer of Heart, constructing wirings, for instance, in a sensitive way in this workstation, to his own advantage and to disadvantage of the person that enables Satan to prevent the person from a good act just by the mere smallest temptations.

4. Have you noticed? This wiring system refers to the filling of Heart's cells with a variety of greed, jealousy, egotism, sensuality, envy, vengeance and other corrupt human desires that will inhabit most people's Hearts, and the effect can be clearly seen in their accomplishments. The Generous Qur'an has called this in many verses as: "In their Hearts is a disease"² showing that there are diseases in their Hearts.

5. Have you noticed? In addition to the above mentioned destructions, in the course of time, Satan opportunistically places in the Heart the Nuclei of jealousy, envy, corrupt social competitiveness, parsimony, grudge, and similar illegitimate lustful desires, along with other immoral characteristics as well. So that occasionally by means of each of these, Satan may easily make the person transgress people's selves and properties, and that the person may secure his life from the blood of God's creatures.

6. Have you noticed? This kind of people when it comes to fulfilling their corrupt desires, they gradually tend to become shameless, and not to fear Almighty God, or religious or civil laws.

7. Have you noticed? Brain is as the archive for sensible occurrences and perceptions. The index for these occurrences is placed in Heart, in such a way that at any occasion Satan wants, he can review these occurrences in person's mind with full perception. By making the person remember those occurrences, Satan can motivate the person towards evil affairs, especially in the contemporary age, when the prevalence of Satanic Temptations on people, due to following Ego, has reached the maximum.

8. Have you noticed? The mentioned Temptations do embitter the leisure hours on Mankind, they even, lay the ground work for further sabotage operations, for those occurrences of which there is no good reflection in mind. Of course, when presenting the index, they do absorb the person by making him observe the contents, and instigate him to corrupt acts leading to persuasions.

9. Have you noticed? Therefore, our contemporary people can not even for few limited minutes relieve themselves from the claws of this kind of Temptations which originate from the study of the mentioned indexes in the heart.

10. Have you noticed? That if they were to knowledgeably become aware about controlling these realities, then they know that the source for Man's peacefulness is to learn about this secret. The short way for this would be perseverance in Almighty God's Remembrance (Dhikr Zikr Zikir) along with Observation of things in the exhibition of the world to perceive the greatness, glory and perfection of Almighty God therefrom. Each of these two acts is in its turn of the most important Unconditional Obediences, rescuer of the Heart from the claws of temptations. The necessity of Remembrance in forty five verses of the Holy Qur'an and the importance of studying the things to observing the Maker's magnificence and perfection therein in two thousand five hundred verses of the Intact Qur'an of Islam, are proven and enlightened. I have prepared and compiled the book of "Daleel-uz-Zakireen"³ (the Guide for engager in Remembrance of God) highlighting the Remembrance as an obligatory obedience and the Six Goblets for the Observation of the Maker's magnificence and perfection.

11. Have you noticed? In the past ages, Devils were trying to inflame wars and conflict among countries. However, later due to their excess control on Mankind, they started to put in war state against state or tribe against tribe. Since, their influence on Mankind increased ever more, they managed to make village with village opposite one another, bringing them to wars and conflicts.

12. Have you noticed? Since, now people have fully paid attention to selfishness and followed the ego, consequently the scope of Devils' power has ever enlarged and they have managed to bring conflicts between neighbor to neighbor, and from door to door. Now, having prepared places for themselves in each Heart, they bring conflicts between son and father, daughter and mother, brother with brother, and in summary, between closest relatives and kinsman, and have devastate them.

Footnotes:
1 Spiritual Behavior (Slook)
2 Holy Quran: Chapter 2 - Al-Baqara (the Cow) verse 10
3 Daleel-uz-Zakireen or "The Guide for Engager in Remembrance of God" is currently under translation from Dari into English. This book is packed with information and provides priceless answers and solutions to all our spiritual enquiries, all based on the sound integrity of the Quran and the Hadith of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). God Willing, we will make it available to you once the book has been fully translated.