Prophet (S): Shaitan, how do you deceive those followers of mine who try their best not to be deceived by you? Shaitan: Allah made one deed, which if your followers perform with the right intention and at the right time, then they can never he deceived by me. And that deed is obligatory prayers. But to solve this problem, what I did was that with every one of your followers I have assigned to them one of my soldiers, whose name is Mutawaqee. And his job is to make your followers procrastinate and to preoccupy them in such activities due to which they recite it in such a manner that their prayers are not acceptable to Allah.

Prophet (S): Shaitan, since you know so much about Islam and its followers, why don’t you ask Allah for forgiveness? Shaitan: Oh Prophet of Allah, Allah does not want me to ask for forgiveness, so what can I do?

Prophet (S): Shaitan, I heard that sometimes you feel as if someone has thrown a heavy stone on your head, which breaks your head into several pieces. Shaitan: Oh Prophet of Allah, yes it is true. Whenever your follower truly repents to Allah, I feel like that.

Prophet (S): Shaitan, I heard that sometimes you feel as if your body is being cut into several pieces. Shaitan: Yes, when your followers go out to fight for the sake of Allah, I feel like that.

Prophet (S): I heard that sometimes you feel as if someone is slapping you. Shaitan: Yes, when your followers recite the Quran with correct pronounciation.

Prophet (S): When are you thrown to the lowest pit of hell? Shaitan: When your followers perform good deeds towards their parents or relatives.

Prophet (S): I heard that sometimes you feel a great pain in your whole body. Shaitan: Yes, when your followers give charily without showing off.

Prophet (S): I heard that sometimes you feel as if someone is whipping you. Shaitan: Yes, when your follower sees a non Mehram (a girl with whom a man can marry), and then he immediately casts his eyes down.

Prophet (S): Whom do you like the best among my followers? Shaitan That person who does business by deceiving people.

Prophet (S): When do you get hurt the most? Shaitan: When your followers remember Allah day and night.

Prophet (S): Whom do you fear the most?

Shaitan: I fear those men who recite prayers in the first row of congregation (Jama’at)

Prophet (S): Which people among my followers have you chosen to be your permanent soldiers?

Shaitan: Any of your followers who use any type of intoxicating beverages.

Prophet (S): Which person makes you laugh?

Shaitan: That person who encourages others to commit sins.

Prophet (S): With whom do you speak the most?

Shaitan: A person who lies the most.

Prophet (S): Who is the most pleasing to you? Shaitan: Any man who divorces an innocent woman.

Prophet (S): Do you have any more friends?

Shaitan: Yes, that person who delays in offering his obligatory prayers.

Prophet (S): Shaitan, where do you stay the most?

Shaitan: A place where non Mahram men and women get together without any separation or observing Hijaab, that is my place of stay.

Prophet (S): Where do you meet people?

Shaitan: Market place (shopping malls); I try to make buyers deceive sellers and sellers deceive buyers. I also encourage men to do their business with women and women to do business with men. I persuade people to all types of sins in bazaars.

Prophet (S): What do your read?

Shaitan: I read songs.

Prophet (S): What is your way of calling people towards committing sins?

Shaitan: Music and songs; whenever your followers listen to music they come towards me.

Prophet (S): What is your book?

Shaitan: Playing cards is my book.

Prophet (S): Who Is your helper?

Shaitan: Any person who contributes to the defeat of your Muslims.

Prophet (S) What do you eat?

Shaitan: I eat everylhing that is obtained by forbidden earnings or by not paving khums.

Prophet (S): What do you drink?

Shaitan: I drink alcohol.

Prophet (S): What is your dessert?

Shaitan: Backbiting.

Prophet (S): Do you have any desires?

Shaitan: Every false commitment is my desire.

Prophet (S): Are you thankful for anything?

Shaitan: Yes I am thankful to those men and women who indulge in sins after asking Allah for forgiveness.

Prophet (S): Do you relax?

Shaitan: Yes, when your followers miss Fajr (morning) prayers.

Prophet (S): Do you get rewards from my followers

Shaitan: Yes, whenever your followers break their relationships with relatives or neighbours.

Prophet (S): Do you have any companions?

Shaitan: Yes, that person who has intercourse with his wife without saying « Bismillahlr Ratimanir Raheem » and that person whose earnings are through un Islamic means.

Prophet (S): What deed of my follower makes you angry? Shaitan: When a mother tries to make her son (or daughter) fast or offer prayers.

Prophet (S): Is there any man among my followers whom you cannot possibly misguide?

Shaitan: Yes, any man who does not intentionally iook at a non Mahram.

Prophet (S): Is there any woman among my followers whom you can’t misguide?

Shaitan: Yes, that woman who observes Hijaab and who listens to her husband.

Prophet (S): Shaitan, out of the men and women you have described, do you have any special men or women that you love the most?

Shaitan: Yes, among women I love those women who do not observe Hijaab. And among men, those who are proud and those who are sinful Ulama (religious scholars).

Prophet (S): Which men do you hate the most?

Shaitan: Four men: The first are humble rich men. The second are Ulama who practice what they preach. The third are young men who ask for forgiveness. And the fourth are old men who fear Allah.

Prophet (S): Are you alone or do you have any companions? Shaitan: Yes, I have some companions who gather at the mosques in order to deceive its visitors. My companions make the visitors talk about things which gives them bad deeds instead of good deeds. Other companions make your wise followers think of their bad deeds as few and their good deeds as many. And other companions, when they see someone giving money in charity or helping someone for the sake of Allah, they entice that person to tell others of his charity and good deeds.

Then Shaitan said, « Oh Prophet of Allah, I have talked to you in much detail. I would like to tell you that you are working towards taking people to heaven and I am working towards taking people to hell ». After this, Shaitan gave Salaams to our beloved Prophet (S) and disappeared.

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