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3 FEATURED ARTICLE Conversation between the Prophet [peace be upon him] and accursed Satan One day, a congregation was gathered at the home of one of the Ansaar around the Prophet (peace be upon him). According to Anas (R.A), it was Hazrat Abu Ayyub Ansari (R.A). In the middle of a wonderful discourse, an ugly voice from the outside was heard saying, O Messenger of Allah would you permit me to enter? I have business with you! All looked at the Prophet (peace be upon him), who said to the ones present, Do you recognize the owner of this voice? The companions answered, Allah and His Messenger know best The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, It is Satan, the Accursed. On hearing that, Hazrat Umar (R.A), who was present, pulling his sword, asked, O Messenger of Allah, permit me to go and cut off his head. Let me smash his skull and free the people from his trouble The Prophet (peace be upon him) replied, No, Umar, don t you know that you cannot kill him? He has permission to exist until Doomsday. Then he added, Open the door and admit him, as he did not come on his own, but on Allah s orders. Otherwise, he would not come here. Listen to what he says, and try to understand. The Hazrat Rawi (R.A), one of the companions, relates the tale. They opened the door and he appeared in front of us as an old man cross-eyed (or blind in one eye) and scant of beard, with only six or seven long hairs from his chin. He had a very big head, his crossed eyes close to the top of his head, high on his forehead, with big thick hanging lips, like those of a water buffalo. He saluted the Prophet and the Companions, to which the Prophet (peace be upon him) responded, O Accursed, the salaam and salutations belong to Allah Most High. Then he said, I heard you are here on business. What is it? Satan said, I did not wish to come here, I was forced to. An angel came to me from your Lord, who honours whom He wishes, and said, Allah Most High orders you to Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him): but you will go to him in humility and abasement, and be submissive and tractable. You will tell him how you seduce and mislead humankind. You are going to answer all his questions truthfully, without a single lie. And Allah said that if I lied to you, He would turn me into ashes and blow me away in the wind, and my enemies would laugh at me. I come with such orders, O Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). Q: Then the Prophet (peace be upon him) asked the Devil, Tell me, who in the creation do you hate most? A: The Devil answered: 1. You O Muhammad (peace be upon him)! And all the prophets There is no one in the whole creation that I hate more than you or another like you. The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) confirmed that the Devil was his (and all the prophets ) greatest foe. Q: He (peace be upon him) asked, Who else do you hate, besides me? A: Satan said, 2. The young ones who have given up their pleasures and themselves for Allah s sake; 3. The men of knowledge who act upon their knowledge and who decline all that is doubtful; 4. The ones who are clean, so clean that they wash thrice that which they wish to cleanse, 5. The patient poor who neither ask from others the things they need, not complaining, 6. The thankful rich, who give alms lawfully, 7. The knowledgeable who act on what they know; 8. The readers of the Quran who pattern themselves on it; 9. Those who call to prayer on time; 10. Advisers and reformers; 11. Abstainers from unlawful food and banned 12. Those who place their trust in Allah; 13. Benefactors of the poor; 14. The devout busy in Allah s service. Q: Who are your friends? A: There are ten groups: 1. Unfair judges; 2. The arrogant rich man; Continued on page 5
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3. Dishonest tradesmen; 4. Drinkers of alcohol; 5. Those who break relations/brotherhood; 6. Dealers in fraud; 7. Those who consume rights of orphans; 8. Those who are often absent from prayers; 9. Those who are unwilling to donate; 10. Those who always fantasize with no use. Q: Then, the Prophet (peace be upon him) asked, What happens to you, O Accursed One, when my people do their prayers? A: I shake and tremble as if stricken with malaria, because I see your people raised in blessing and power each time they prostrate. Q: What happens to you, O Accursed, when my people fast? A: I have my hands and feet tied until they break their fast. Q: What happens to you when they all meet on the Pilgrimage at the house of their Lord? A: I lose my mind, I go mad. Q: What happens to you when they recite the Holy Qur an? A: I melt, like lead turning to hot liquid in the fire. Q: And when they pay alms? A: I am torn to pieces, as if the generous donors took a saw and sawed 5 me into four pieces, because there are four rewards which the donor receives: the blessing of abundance, love and respect from Allah s creatures, a shield from Hell fires, and relief from distress and troubles. Q: Then the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) asked the Devil what he thought of his beloved Companions. A: About Abu Bakr (R.A) he said, I hate him. Even before Islam, he refused to obey, nay! Even to hear me. How can he now listen to me? About Umar Ibn Khattab (R.A) he said, I run away whenever I see him. And about Ali Ibn Abu Talib [K.W] he said, Oh, if I could just be safe from him, if he would just let me be, I would let him be. But he will not leave me alone! Having heard the answers of the accursed Satan, the Prophet (peace be upon him) thanked Allah said, Praised be to Allah, who has blessed my people with such talent and cursed you with such negativity until that appointed time. When the Devil heard that, he said, Alas for you, what talent for your people? How can you feel there is safety for them as long as I exist? I enter their very veins, their very flesh, and they cannot even suspect, let alone see or feel me. I swear by Allah Who has given me time until Doomsday, that I will seduce them all, the intelligent and the simple minded, the learned as well as the ignorant, the devout as well as the sinner. None will be safe from me, except the true servants of Allah. Q: Who are the true servants of Allah, according to you? A: You know well, O Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), that whoever loves his money and his property, Allah does not count among His servants. Whenever I see someone who does not say mine and me, who does not love either money or flattery, I know he is truly a servant of Allah and I run away from him. As long as one loves money, property, flattery, he obeys me, he is my servant. I need many servants and I have servants. I am not alone. I have 70,000 children, each of them with his assigned duties. Each of my 70,000 children has 70,000 Satans serving under him, all assigned to different posts. Many are with the young, and the older women, and with the theologians and preachers and sheikhs. There is almost no difference of opinion between your young children. And some of the devout and some of the pious get along very well with my people! My devils lead the imagination of the sincerity of their devotions. Soon, they fight with each other and they don t even know what is happening to them. Then, I whisper to them, Disbelieve, but when they disbelieve, I say, I am free of you. Surely I fear Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. (Surah 59 al- Hashir, Ayat 16.) Q: O Accursed One, with who do you most like to spend your time? A: The usurer. Q: And your best friend? A: The adulterer. Q: With whom do you share your bed? A: The drunkard. Q: Who are your guests? A: The thieves. Q: Who are your representatives? A: The magicians and soothsayers. Continued on page 8
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Q: What pleases you most? A: Divorce. Q: Whom do you love most? A: Those who abandon their Friday prayers. Q: What breaks your heart, O Accursed One? A: The determination and the firm footsteps of those who march against the enemies of Allah for Allah s sake. Q: What gives you pain? A: The repentance of the penitent. Q: What makes you grimace? A: The alms given in secret. Q: What makes your eyes blind? A: The tahajjud prayer (late night prayer) in the middle of the night. Q: What makes you bow your head? A: Prayer done in congregation. Q: O Satan, according to you, who are the happiest among people? A: The ones who purposefully abandon their prayers. Q: And the best among people? A: The miser. Q: What prevents you from doing your job? A: The gathering of men of knowledge and their conversations. Q: How do you eat your food? A: With my left hand and the tips of my fingers. 8 Q: When the sun is hot, where do you seek shade? A: Under people s dirty fingernails. Then the Devil started to complain. He said, O Muhammad (peace be upon him), in spite of all this, I have no strength to take away the faith of the faithful. I only take away their faith when they throw it away. If I were able, there would be no one on the face of this world who could say: LA ILAHA ILLALLAH, MUHAMMAD RASULULLAH (There is no God by Allah, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah) I would not leave a single one to pray or fast. All I can do is to give the children of Adam imaginations, illusions and delusions, make the ugly appear beautiful, the wrong, right; and the bad, good. Neither do you have the power to give faith. You are only a proof of the Truth, because I know that, if you were given the power to give true faith, you would not leave a single non-believer on the face of this world. The fortunate one who is a believer is fortunate in his mother s womb, and the rebellious sinner is a rebel in his mother s womb. As you are the guide of the fortunate, I am only the cause of sin of the ones who are destined to sin. Allah is He who renders one fortunate and another rebellious. Then he recited from Surah Hud, And if thy Lord had pleased He would have made people a single nation, and they cease not to differ, except those upon whom thy Lord has mercy, and for this did He create them. And the Word of thy Lord hath been fulfilled: Verily I shall fill hell with the jinn and mankind together. (Surah Hud, Ayat 118-119.) He recited from Surah Ahzab, Ayat 38: And the command of Allah is a decree that is made absolute. Then, the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) told the Devil, O Father of All Bitterness, I wonder if it is at all possible for you to repent and return to your Lord. I promise I would intercede for you. The Accursed One answered, O Messenger of Allah, it is Allah s justice. The ink on the pen, which wrote the judgment, is dry; what will happen until Doomsday. The One who made the master of all prophets, the speaker for the inhabitants of Paradise, the One who chose you to be the beloved amongst His creation, chose me to be the master of sinners and the speaker of the inhabitants of Hell. He is Allah. O Muhammad (peace be upon him), this which I have told you is my last word to you, and I have told nothing but the truth. [This was a Hadith from Hazrat Ibn Abbas (R.A), as related by Mudh Ibn Jabal [R.A] and contained in Shaik-e-Akbar shaikh Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi s book, Shajarat al-kawn, (The Tree of Being). This is by information from another Hadith by Anas Ibn Malik (R.A).] Original Source: https://madinaesani. wordpress.com/2012/09/18/conversationbetween-the-holy-prophet-peace-be-uponhim-and-satan/
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