Satan's Deception

Method of knowing Satan's Deception

7 methods to know the cheating and deception of Satan with which he snares mankind:

1) Satan will stop man from worship altogether
-If Allah saves him and that man wont listen to Satan, they'll go to the next step

2)Satan beguiles him to postpone his worship for sometime
-If the man saves himself from this attack by Allah's mercy, the next plan is awaiting......

3)He instigates the man to complete such and such jobs in order to gain full freedom for sincere worship
- means that man will always thinking about his job and not paying so much attention on his worship. If fail...

4)Satan will involve man in show and ostentation by suggesting the worship should be offered very nicely and attentively.
-but if that man saves himself from this trick.....

5)Satan could involve him in pride and arrogance that he is a great worshipper and a very righteous being.
-with the help of Allah, man also could save himself by arguing that he is very sinful man and his worship and devotion are due only to Allah's mercy, despite his sins. Now the next way after satan failed.....

6) About show and ostentation too. Satan very cunningly suggests to the man  that however secretly he may worship, Allah will make his worship and devotion known to the public and he will thus renowned automatically.
- if they also failed...

7) Satan suggests that those good and bad deeds have no effects on man's fate, because everything has been finally settled and decreed in the very beginning of creation.
-if that man saves himself from this trick of Satan, he will believe that being a servant of Allah he has to be obedient and submissive irrespective of what has been decreed for him.

We as Muslims, are always under Satan's supervision and the true believer is someone who appear before Allah as a devout servant than a disobedient one.

These are all only possibilities and probabilities. Allah has promised to reward those who will go to Him with Ieman and good deeds.

Allah alone is All-Powerful. All help comes from Him only.


Edited from Minhajul 'Abidin: Imam Ghazali