Read If You Dare The Story Of Satan

THE STORY OF SATAN

IN THE NAME OF ALLAH (GOD), THE MERCIFUL, THE COMPASSIONATE. Praise be to Allah (God), Lord of the Worlds. Peace and blessings be upon our Master Muhammad, the righteous Prophet, upon His family (the pure ones) and upon His companions. As reported by Mu’ahn Jabal (may Allah [God] be pleased with him) (Abd Allah) the son of Abbas (May Allah Most High be pleased with them both) said: “We were sitting together in a group with the apostle of Allah (pbuh) in the house of one of the Ansaris when someone called out…. O people of the house, will you permit me to enter, I have a task to fulfill for you.”

“Do you know who the caller is,” asked the Apostle of Allah (God) (pbuh). “Allah and His Apostle know best,” they said. So the Apostle of Allah told them, “this is Satan the cursed one, whom Allah (God) has damned.” “Let me kill him O Apostle of Allah (God), said Umar ibn al Khattab (may Allah Most High be pleased with him), but the Prophet (pbuh) said gently, “Umar do you not realize that he is among those granted respite until the appointed day?” Instead, open the door for him, for he is under command. Understand what he says and listen to what he has to tell you. (Abd Allah) Son of Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) continued:

So the door was opened for him and he entered to join them. He was an old man, blind in one eye and with only very thin hair growing on his face. His beard consisted of seven hairs like the horse and his eyes were set vertically. His head was like that of a great elephant, his eye-tooth protruded like the tusks of a boar and his lips were like those of a bull.

Satan…. Peace be upon you Muhammad and peace be upon you O gathering of Muslims.

Muhammad (pbuh)…. Peace is of “God, cursed one,” I have heard. What is your desire?

Satan…. Muhammad (pbuh), I did not come to you of my own accord, but rather because I was forced to do so.

Prophet (pbuh)…. and what is it that forced you, cursed one?

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Satan…. An angel came to me from the Exalted Lord and told me, “God Most High ordered you to come to Muhammad (pbuh),” be humble, abject and unpretentious. Tell him how you deceived and misled the sons of Adam, and answer truthfully any questions he asks you. “By my might and glory, if you tell him a single lie or fail to be truthful with him, I will turn you into ashes for the winds to blow away,” and your enemies will gloat at your misfortune. There is nothing more unbearable than the gloating of one’s enemies.

Muhammad (pbuh)…. If you are sincere, then tell me, who among men do you hate?

Satan…. “You, Muhammad and those like you are to me, the most “hated of God’s creatures.”

Muhammad (pbuh)…. What else do you hate?

Satan…. The devoted youth who dedicates his soul to God Almighty.

Prophet (pbuh)…. And then who?

Satan…. He who remains pure through three prayers.

Prophet (pbuh)…. And then who?

Satan…. A patient pauper, if he speaks of his poverty to no one and does not complain of his plight.

Prophet (pbuh)…. And how do you know him to be patient?

Satan…. Muhammad, if he complained of his plight to another created as he for three consecutive days, God would not record for him the merit allotted to the patient.

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Prophet (pbuh)…. And then who?

Satan…. The right man who is thankful.

Prophet (pbuh)…. And how do you know him to be thankful?

Satan…. When I see him take the right thing, and put it in the right place.

Prophet (pbuh)…. What happens to you when my people rise for prayer?

Satan…. Muhammad, I am afflicted by fever and tremble.

Prophet pbuh)…. Why cursed one?

Satan…. Because when the worshiper prostrates himself before God, God raises him a step.

Prophet (pbuh)…. And when they fast?

Satan…. I am fettered until they lapse.

Prophet (pbuh)…. And when they make the pilgrimage?

Satan…. I become insane.

Prophet (pbuh)…. And when they read the QUR’AN?

Satan…. I melt, as lead over fire.

Prophet (pbuh)…. And why is that, Abu Mura?

Satan…. In alms giving, there are four benefits, and they are that God Almighty sends down blessings on all his possessions, endears him to His creation, make his offering a screen between him and the fire, and through it defends him from infirmities and disasters.

Satan…. He did not submit to me in the days of ignorance Muhammad, so how could he do so is Islam?

Prophet (pbuh)…. And what say you of Umar ibn Al-Khattab?

Satan…. By God I never encountered him without fleeing from him.

Prophet (pbuh)…. And what of Uthman ibn Attan?

Satan…. I feel ashamed before one whom the angles of the merciful feel ashamed.

Prophet (pbuh)…. And what say you of Ali Abu Talib?

Satan…. Would God that I were secure from him head for head, he would leave me alone and I would leave him alone, but that he has never done.

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Prophet (pbuh)…. Praise be to God who has made my community felicitous and you wretched until the appointed day.

Satan…. Alas, how wrong you are! Where is the felicity of your community while I live and die, not until the appointed day? How can you be pleased with your community while I enter them through the bloodstream and flesh and they recognize not? By He who created me and granted me respite until the day they are called forth, I shall tempt them all, ignorant and learned, illiterate and literate blasphemer and worshiper, except for the sincerely devoted worshipers of God.

Prophet (pbuh)…. And who, according to you are the sincerely devoted ones?

Satan…. Do you know Muhammad, that he who cherishes the dirham and dinar is not sincerely devoted to God Almighty? When I see a man who loves neither dirham nor dinar, nor praise, I know that he is sincerely devoted to God. A man who cherishes wealth and flattery and his heart is preoccupied with worldly desires, he will be more submissive that I could possibly describe to you. Do you know that the love of wealth is one of the most heinous sins of all Muhammad, and that the lust for power is one of the most heinous sins of all, and that pride is one of the most heinous sins of all? Do you know Muhammad, that I have 70,000 sons, each of whom has 70,000 devils? Among these are those I assign to the learned men, those I assign to the young men, those I assign to old men, those I assign to old women. As for the young men, there is no disagreement between us and them and as for the boys, the (devils) play with them as they choose. Those I assign to worshippers and those I assign to ascetics. They enter among them and drive them out from station to station and from gate to gate until they beguile them by one means or another. They deprive them of sincerity, so they worship God almighty with insincerity and yet do not realize it. Do you know Muhammad, that the monk Barisa devoted seventy sincere years to God, to the point that he could cure by his invocation anyone who was ill? Yet I did not abandon him until he had fornicated, murdered and apostatized. He is the one to whom God Almighty referred in His Glorious Book: when He said: “like Satan, when he said to man to disbelieve, then when he disbelieved, he (Satan) said, surely I fear the Lord of the Worlds.” Do you know Muhammad that lying is my doing, that I was the first to lie and that whoever lies is my friend and whoever swears falsely in God’s name is my beloved? Do you not know Muhammad that in God’s name, I swore to Adam and Eve, “for God’s sake that I am one of your sincerest advisors.” The lying oath is the joy of my heart, slander and defamation are my fruits and my delight, and bearing false witness brings pleasure and satisfaction to my eyes.

He who swears divorce is on the brink of sin, even if he does so only once or acts in good faith. The wife of him whose tongue has grown accustomed to divorce is forbidden to him, but they do not cease to beget children until the Resurrection Day and all of those will be children of adultery and will enter the fire for the sake of a word.

Muhammad, in your community there are those who postpone the prayer an hour or so. Every time he wants to rise for prayer I stand by him and whisper wicked suggestions to him and tell him, there is still time, you are busy, until he puts off the prayer and performs it at other than its appointed time for which it is flung back into his face. If he defeats me I send him one of the devils of mankind to delay him beyond the time for prayer and if he defeats me at that, I leave him alone until he is praying and then say to him look to the right and left. So he looks, and as he does I stroke his face with my hand, kiss him between the eyes and tell him, surely you have done what can never be forgiven, and you yourself Muhammad know that God flings it back in the face of the prayer, who keeps looking around as he performs it.

If he defeats me in the prayers and is praying alone I tell him to hurry, he pecks at the prayer as the rooster pecks at seeds, and rushes through it. If he defeats me and is praying in a group I hold him back with a bridle, raise his head before the Imam does and lower it before the Imam does. You yourself know Muhammad, that the prayer of those who does that count for nothing and on the Resurrection Day, God will turn his head into that of an ***. If he defeats me in that, I tell him to crack his knuckles during the prayer, so that he becomes one of my worshipers as he prays, and if he defeats me in that, I blow into his nose until he yawns while he prays, and if he does not put his hand over his mouth I (devil) enter his stomach making him increasingly greedy for the things of the world and attentive and submissive to me.

And is there any felicity for your community while I order the poor to stop praying, telling him “prayer is not your obligation but rather the obligation of him whom God has shown favors”, and telling the sick “stop praying, it is not your obligation, but rather the obligation of him whom God has favored with good health for God Almighty has said, there is no fault in the sick. When you recover, you pray as you should,” so that he dies an apostate, and when he dies having abandoned prayer in his illness, he meets God Almighty and God is displeased with him?

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If I have lied or digressed, Muhammad, ask God to turn me into ashes. Can you rejoice in your community, Muhammad, when I have diverted a sixth of it from the path of Islam?

Prophet (pbuh)…. Cursed one, who is your companion?

Satan…. The usurer.

Prophet (pbuh)…. And who is your friend?

Satan…. The fornicator.

Prophet (pbuh)…. And your bedfellow?

Satan…. The drunkard.

Prophet (pbuh)…. Who is your guest?

Satan…. The thief.

Prophet (pbuh)…. And who is your envoy?

Satan…. The sorcerer.

Prophet (pbuh)…. What is refreshing to your eyes?

Satan…. He who swears divorce.

Prophet (pbuh)…. And who is your beloved?

Satan…. The one who abandons the Friday prayer.

Prophet (pbuh)…. What breaks your back?

Satan…. The whinnying of the horses in the cause of God.

Prophet (pbuh)…. And what wastes away your body?

Satan…. The repentance of the contrite.

Prophet (pbuh)…. And what inflames your liver?

Satan…. Frequent seeking of God’s forgiveness by night and day.

Prophet (pbuh)…. What embarrasses you?

Satan…. Giving alms in secret.

Prophet (pbuh)…. What blurs your vision?

Satan…. The dawn prayer.

Prophet (pbuh)…. What bridles your head?

Satan…. Frequent prayer in a group.

Prophet (pbuh)…. And which men, according to you are the most wretched?

Satan…. The thrifty.

Prophet (pbun)…. What distracts you from work?

Satan…. The councils of the learned.

Prophet (pbuh)…. And how do you eat?

Satan…. With the fingers of my left hand.

Prophet (pbuh)…. Where do you shelter your sons in time of fiery winds and sandstorms?

Satan…. Under the fingernails of men.

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Prophet (pbuh)…. How many things have you asked your Lord to grant you?

Satan…. Ten things.

Prophet (pbuh)…. And what are they cursed one?

Satan…. I asked Him to let me share in the wealth and children of the sons of Adam, so He made me their associate, when He said: “and share with them in their wealth and their children and promise them naught except delusion”. I feed on all ill begotten fortune and also on any sustenance with usury or other forbidden practices, on any wealth from which he does not seek protection from Satan the curse and on anyone who does not seek God’s protection during intercourse. When he enters his wife the devil enters with him and the child is born attentive and submissive to me. And whoever rides the beast of burden in search of anything not permissible has me for a comrade. As in the word of the Almighty: “and rally against them thy horsemen and thy foot”. I asked Him to make for me a home and it was the bathhouse. I asked Him to make for me a call to prayer and it was the sound of flutes. I asked Him to make for me a bedfellow and it was the drunkard.

I asked Him to make for me some companions and He said, “those whose fortunes are squandered in sin,” and recited this verse, “The squanders are brothers of Satan”.

Prophet (pbuh)…. Were you not offering me verification in the verses of the Book of God Almighty for every word, I would not believe you.

Satan…. Muhammad, I asked God almighty that I may see the sons of Adam while they see me not, so He caused me to flow in their veins like blood and granted my soul the freedom to roam as I wish. If I want something within the hour, God Almighty says, you shall have what you seek and of that I can boast until the Resurrection Day. Those with me are more numerous than those with you, and most of the progeny of Adam are with me until the Resurrection Day.

I have a son whom I call Atama, he urinates in the ear of the worshiper if he sleeps through the evening prayer, and were it not for that, people would not fall asleep until after they had performed the prayer. I have a son whom I call Mutaqadi, when a believer privately performs a pious deed and wants to keep it secret, he never stops trying to drag it out of him in front of others, until he tells people about it. God almighty thus cancels ninety nine of the hundred merits and there remain for him only one. Since for every good deed done in secret he gains one hundred merits. I have a son whom I call Khalil, it is he who lines the eyes of the people with kohi in the councils of the learned and during the orator’s address, until they fall asleep while listening to the words of the scholars. Thus God never records merits for them.

No woman goes out without a devil sitting at her backside and another at her privates. They make her attractive to those who see her and tell her, stretch out your hand, when she does her fingertips are exposed and she is disgraced.

Muhammad, I have nothing to do with misguidance, rather I am a whisperer of wicked suggestions and a tempter. If misguidance was within my grasp, I would leave no one on the face of the earth saying, there is no God but God and Muhammad is the apostle of God, or fasting or praying. Similarly you have nothing to do with guidance, you are an Apostle and a Messenger. If guidance was within your grasp, you would leave no unbeliever on the face of the earth.

Then the apostle of God recited the word of the Almighty, but they continue in their differences, expounding on those whom their Lord has mercy.

Muhammad (pbuh)…. Abu Murra (Satan), turn from sin and return to God almighty, and I will be your guarantee of paradise.

Satan…. Muhammad, it has been decided and the pen has dried from recording how things will be until the Resurrection Day. So praise be to He who made you the master of the Prophets and the Preacher to the people of paradise, singled you out and loved you, and made me the master of the damned and preacher of the people of the fire, cursed me and banished me. This is all I have to say to you and indeed I have done so in good faith. Praise be to God Lord of the worlds first and last, visible and invisible and may the blessings of God be upon our Master Muhammad, the unlettered Prophet and on his family and his companions and His peace upon the Muslims. Praise be to God Lord of the worlds.