When Your Enemy Pretends to be Your Friend and a Well wisher...

When Your Enemy Pretends to be Your Friend and a Well wisher...

by Nisaar Y. Nadiadwala on Saturday, October 22, 2011 at 9:13pm

The Story of the enemity between men and Satan goes back to the time when satan refused to prostrate to Adam as commanded by Allah. And Allah ordered " Get Out ! Disgraced and Expelled! The next few dialouges that went between Iblis and Allah regarding Adam and his progeny are noted in the Qur'an. But before that, Allah exposes his two attributes which appears apparently in his reason for not prostrating to Adam a.s. inspite of Allah's command... 1. Aba wastaqbar... and 2. ana khairoo minhu...Both the statements are worth noticing because  they are found in many Bani Adam, an indication that they too are on the foot step of satan. Kibr means Arrogance... and ana khairu minhu also means I am better than he.. arrogance..Many of us boast of the blessings of Allah that he has given us above others, instead of thanking Allah we look down upon others..We compare our superiority in welath, health, intelligence and other such blessings which include even looks...

   Then he said to Allah,"My lord! give me then respite till the day of raising... Since you have caused me to deviate I will also I will also make wrong fair seeming to then on the earth.. This is recorded in Surah Hijr , ch 15, verse 39.. Surah al Ar'af ch 7,verse 17 says...Then I will assault them fron front and behind them, from their right and their left...satan's desire ends with  a guess...You will find most of them ungrateful !

   Allah has not hidden any dialogue regarding Iblis from us.. because He wants us to be alert from him. If you note the above verses, which many of us read umpteen time but forget to ponder into it... Instead of apologising for disobeying, Iblis blamed Allah for letting him astray...then he challenged that he will lead many of men astray..His final conclusion was.. You will find many of them ungrateful !

 So the question is " How does he attack us? How does he make us ungrateful ? Surely he does come with weapons but his weapons are not drones and missiles and nuclear weapons...But his approach is very friendly.. he appears as a well wishers most of the times ...That is how he cheated Adam a.s. and his wife. Surah Araf ch 7, verse 21 says.. and he swore to both of them that he was their sincere advisor....!

  Today many people, many movements, many ideologies, many materialistic projects approach Muslims as their well wishers. Some allure us to take housing loans on interests, some tell our women that they should discard hijab and take up liberal dresses, there are some who invites us to discard shariah and take up democractic constitutions.. These are the army of Iblees, or rather the ambassadors of Satan... out to take us away from the siratull mustaqeem...

 Author: Nisaar Nadiadwala speaks and writes on socio-educational issues from Islamic perspective.. He can be reached at nisaar_yusuf@yahoo.com.

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