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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ibnanv" data-source="post: 12810926" data-attributes="member: 218596">[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]Why did Iblees tell Allah all of this? Because he knew that Allah's promise is the truth. When Allah <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/IC-Articles/Allah_swt[14x13].GIF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> told Iblees he was from those given respite he also knew that Allah <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/IC-Articles/Allah_swt[14x13].GIF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> doesn't break His promise. How about us when we make du`a' (supplication)? Do we feel that Allah <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/IC-Articles/Allah_swt[14x13].GIF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> doesn't break His promise to us? Are we as confident in our du`a' as Iblees, who is the enemy of Allah <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/IC-Articles/Allah_swt[14x13].GIF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />? How is it possible that Iblees can be more confident in his du`a' than us?Iblees told  Allah <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/IC-Articles/Allah_swt[14x13].GIF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> his plan: [Shaytan] said,                   <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/MOSQUE/ARABICSCRIPT/AYAT/7/7_16.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />                 <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/MOSQUE/ARABICSCRIPT/AYAT/7/7_17.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />                   "Because You have put me in error, I will surely sit in wait for them on  Your straight path. Then I will come to them from before them and from  behind them and on their right and on their left, and You will not find  most of them grateful [to You]." (Qur'an         <a href="http://www.islamicity.com/QuranSearch/?ref=7:16-7:17" target="_blank">7:16-17</a>)            When Shaytan blamed  Allah by saying, "Because You have put me error," this was a mistake in  his belief in the qadr (decree) of Allah <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/IC-Articles/Allah_swt[14x13].GIF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />.  If done on purpose, a mistake in `aqidah (belief) is kufr (disbelief in  Allah). There's a hadith (record of the words of the Prophet <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/Islam/SAWS_sm__14x12.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />) that mentions this in Sahih Bukhari: In the time of Bani Israel (the people of Israel), a man lived with a roommate who didn't pray. When he encouraged his roommate to pray, the roommate just said he didn't feel like praying. The man went back later and tried to encourage his roommate again but received the same response. Finally, the third time the man came to his roommate and said, "If you don't pray, Allah <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/IC-Articles/Allah_swt[14x13].GIF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> will never forgive you." The Prophet <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/Islam/SAWS_sm__14x12.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> said that Allah <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/IC-Articles/Allah_swt[14x13].GIF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> will resurrect these two people and will bring forward the one who  didn't pray and ask him, "Why didn't you pray?" The man will say,  "Wallahi (I swear by Allah), I loved You but I was weak. I believed in  You but I was weak." Allah <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/IC-Articles/Allah_swt[14x13].GIF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> will say, "I forgive you." Then Allah <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/IC-Articles/Allah_swt[14x13].GIF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> will bring forward the righteous man who was advising his friend and  ask, "Why did you tell him I wouldn't forgive him?" Why does Allah <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/IC-Articles/Allah_swt[14x13].GIF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> ask him that? Because in our belief anyone who dies believing in Allah <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/IC-Articles/Allah_swt[14x13].GIF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> and the Prophet <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/Islam/SAWS_sm__14x12.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> as the last Prophet insha'Allah (God willing) will go to Paradise (although some later than others). Allah <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/IC-Articles/Allah_swt[14x13].GIF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> can forgive any sin except shirk (associating partners with Him) for whomever He wants (Qur'an <a href="http://www.islamicity.com/MOSQUE/ARABICSCRIPT/AYAT/4/4_116.htm" target="_blank">4:116</a>); this is part of our `aqidah (belief). We also know that if someone repents from shirk, Allah <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/IC-Articles/Allah_swt[14x13].GIF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> will forgive it. So, saying that Allah <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/IC-Articles/Allah_swt[14x13].GIF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> will never forgive someone is a mistake in our belief. When Iblees said Allah <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/IC-Articles/Allah_swt[14x13].GIF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> misguided him, this was a mistake in his belief because he attributed misguidance to Allah <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/IC-Articles/Allah_swt[14x13].GIF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />. We don't find misguidance amongst the names or attributes of Allah <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/IC-Articles/Allah_swt[14x13].GIF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />. Allah <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/IC-Articles/Allah_swt[14x13].GIF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> doesn't misguide people; human beings choose to be misguided. Like Allah <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/IC-Articles/Allah_swt[14x13].GIF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> says in the Qur'an, "...and when they deviated, Allah caused their hearts to deviate," (Qur'an <a href="http://www.islamicity.com/MOSQUE/ARABICSCRIPT/AYAT/61/61_5.htm" target="_blank">61:5</a>). So, Iblees gives us his  plan. Have anyone of you heard of the repo-man? The repo-man is a  person who comes and takes your car if you don't make your car payment.  Subhan'Allah (glory be to God) when I was in college, I received credit  card offers all the time, with very high credit limits. Now that I'm  married with children and a job, alhamdullilah (praise be to Allah), I  haven't gotten one credit card offer. Why is that? Because they want to  catch you when you're young; because they know that most college  students can't control their desires. College students tend to spend  money that they can't pay the bill for when it comes. People will come  to your house and take your iPod, your laptop, and the best of whatever  they can find. So the job of the repo-man is to take the most valuable  commodity you have. Shaytan works the same way. Iblees is coming for  us, and when he comes to us, he's coming to take the most valuable  commodity we have. We might be worried that Iblees is coming to take our  Lexus, or our PS3, or our concert ticket. But Shaytan is not interested  in taking all that. He will come to take our Islam. How many of us feel  that we're lucky to be Muslim? When we hear this, we should think,  subhan'Allah, my treasure is my deen (faith). If you want to know how  valuable Islam is, go to Surah Al 'Araf (Qur'an 7). Even when the people  enter Paradise, they realize their greatest blessing is Islam and they  say:                   <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/MOSQUE/ARABICSCRIPT/AYAT/7/7_43.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />                   "Praise to Allah, who has guided us to this; and we would never have been guided if Allah had not guided us," (Qur'an         <a href="http://www.islamicity.com/MOSQUE/ARABICSCRIPT/AYAT/7/7_43.htm" target="_blank">7:43</a>).            How many of us have  felt this value for our deen, knowing that Iblees, the "repo-man", wants  this most valuable of things from us? That's why when you're sitting in  a philosophy class and you start having doubts remember that Iblees's  primary target is your faith. How do people treat the  most valuable commodity that they have, like the Mona Lisa? How many of  you have been to the Louvre before? If you visit museums, you see the  "priceless antiquities" have lasers and other security devices. If you  cross the wrong line, helicopters and police come after you. Do we  protect our Islam the way these priceless commodities have been  protected?  Do we protect our Islam knowing that this enemy is  constantly trying to take it from us? This is a very important point,  because in the ayah (verse) Shaytan uses two forms of emphasis (laam  at-tawkeed and nun at-tawkeed) to say, "Wallahi I will definitely take  them off the straight path!" What is the remedy for this in Surah Al Fatiha?                            <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/MOSQUE/ARABICSCRIPT/AYAT/1/1_6.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />                  "Ihdina as-siraat al-mustaqeem (guide us to the straight path)," (Qur'an         <a href="http://www.islamicity.com/MOSQUE/ARABICSCRIPT/AYAT/1/1_6.htm" target="_blank">1:6</a>)            That's why  Allah <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/IC-Articles/Allah_swt[14x13].GIF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> made it an obligation to read Surah Al Fatiha at least seventeen times a  day, because we have an enemy coming after us at all times, 24 hours a  day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. That's why we need this du`a'. Now  when we say it, we should feel as if we need to say this to protect  ourselves. Then Shaytan continued. He said:                   <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/MOSQUE/ARABICSCRIPT/AYAT/7/7_17.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />                   "Then I will come to them from before them and from behind them and on  their right and on their left, and You will not find most of them  grateful [to You]." (Qur'an         <a href="http://www.islamicity.com/MOSQUE/ARABICSCRIPT/AYAT/7/7_17.htm" target="_blank">7:17</a>)            Now, maybe after  hearing this, some of us will still think, "Hey, I've got Norton  Anti-Virus, I'm good. Shaytan can't get me." As I said earlier, this is  the person who Shaytan got. Abdullah ibn Masood radi Allahu `anhu (may  Allah be pleased with him) related a hadith related by Imam Ahmed with a  strong isnad (chain of narration). He said, "One day we were sitting  with the Prophet <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/Islam/SAWS_sm__14x12.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> and he drew a straight line. He said, "This is the way of Allah <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/IC-Articles/Allah_swt[14x13].GIF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />." Then the Prophet <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/Islam/SAWS_sm__14x12.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> drew lines perpendicular to this straight line and he said, "On every  one of these lines is a Shaytan calling you to his path." So there's a  Shaytan calling Muslims to get high, calling Muslims to hang out with  the opposite gender, calling Muslims to commit acts of homosexuality. On  every one of these ways there's a Shaytan telling you that communism or  secularism or nationalism is better than Islam. These are the things  that you will hear in your universities. Shaytan will work on you in  every way that you can think of, especially in concepts (i.e. how you  think about life). Suhban'Allah, the Prophet <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/Islam/SAWS_sm__14x12.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> pointed at the first straight line that he drew and he read this verse from Surah Al An`am,                   <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/MOSQUE/ARABICSCRIPT/AYAT/6/6_153.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />                   "And this is My path, which is straight, so follow it; and do not follow  [other] ways, for you will be separated from His way. This has He  instructed you that you may become righteous." (Qur'an         <a href="http://www.islamicity.com/MOSQUE/ARABICSCRIPT/AYAT/6/6_153.htm" target="_blank">6:153</a>)            When we go to the Qur'an we notice something interesting. Whenever Allah <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/IC-Articles/Allah_swt[14x13].GIF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> uses the word "darkness", or words that symbolize misguidance, He uses  those words in the plural form. But, whenever He uses words to symbolize  guidance, like "light", He uses those words only in the singular form.  For example, Allah <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/IC-Articles/Allah_swt[14x13].GIF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> says,                   <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/MOSQUE/ARABICSCRIPT/AYAT/2/2_257.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />                   "Allah is the protector of those who believe. He brings them out from  darknesses into the light. And those who disbelieve - their allies are  Taghut. They take them out of the light into the darknesses. Those are  the companions of the Fire; they will abide eternally therein," (Qur'an         <a href="http://www.islamicity.com/MOSQUE/ARABICSCRIPT/AYAT/2/2_257.htm" target="_blank">2:257</a>)            Another example is in the sixth chapter of the Qur'an where Allah <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/IC-Articles/Allah_swt[14x13].GIF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> says,                   <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/MOSQUE/ARABICSCRIPT/AYAT/6/6_122.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />                   "And is one who was dead and We gave him life and made for him light by  which to walk among the people like one who is steeped in darknesses,  never to emerge         there from? Thus it has been made pleasing to the disbelievers  that which they were doing," (Qur'an         <a href="http://www.islamicity.com/MOSQUE/ARABICSCRIPT/AYAT/6/6_122.htm" target="_blank">6:122</a>)            This verse was sent when `Umar <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/Art/Radi_Allahu_anhu__34x12.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> accepted Islam. Why does Allah <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/IC-Articles/Allah_swt[14x13].GIF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> use light in the singular and darkness in the plural? Because Allah <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/IC-Articles/Allah_swt[14x13].GIF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> wants to show us that guidance can only be obtained by traversing  siratul mustaqeem (the straight path) and there's only one straight  path:                   <img src="http://www.islamicity.com/MOSQUE/ARABICSCRIPT/AYAT/6/6_71.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />                   "Say, 'Indeed, the guidance of Allah is the [only] guidance; and we have  been commanded to submit to the Lord of the worlds,'" (Qur'an         <a href="http://www.islamicity.com/MOSQUE/ARABICSCRIPT/AYAT/6/6_71.htm" target="_blank">6:71</a>)            However, the ways to be misguided are innumerable.[/FONT]</blockquote>

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