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SEVEN TRICKS OF SHYTAAN *edited by Muslimah *
Shaykh Uthman Dan Fodia [1]
----------------------------------------------------- As for the tricks of Shaytaan against you they are seven.
1. HE OBSTRUCTS YOU FROM DOING ACTS OF OBEDIENCE.
Repel him, if Allah protects you, by realizing that you are in need of these acts of obedience in order to gather provision from this life for the next life which will have no ending.
2. HE COMMANDS YOU TO PROCRASTINATE IN ACTS OF OBEDIENCE.
Repel him, if Allah protects you, by realizing that your appointed time is not in your hands and that you could die at any moment.
3. HE COMMANDS YOU TO RUSH IN ACTS OF OBEDIENCE by suggesting to you, " Hurry! In order that you can do such-and-such!"
Repel him, if Allah protects you, that realizing that few acts of obedience done with perfection is better than many done incompletely.
4. HE COMMANDS YOU TO PERFECT YOUR WORSHIP IN ORDER TO BE SEEN OF MEN.
Repel him, if Allah protects you, by realizing that the sight of Allah is enough for you over the sight of men.
5. HE WHISPERS ARROGANCE AND PRIDE IN YOUR HEART by saying, "Who is greater and more precise than your obedience?"
Repel him, if Allah protects you, by realizing that your acts of obedience to Allah is a blessing from Allah, not from yourself. If it were not for the bounty of Allah, you would not be able to establish any act of obedience, which are nothing next to the blessing of Allah Ta`ala.
6. This is the greatest of his tricks, he says to you, "Make strenuous effort in KEEPING YOUR OBEDIENCE OF ALLAH SECRET. Soon He will make your acts manifest before the world!"
Repel him, if Allah protects you, that you are a slave of Allah and that He alone is your Master. If He wills, He will manifest you and if He wills He will keep you concealed. If He wills, He will make you important and if He wills He will make you insignificant. That is for Him to decide, and you should not care whether He manifests your good deeds to people or not, because there is nothing in their hands worth seeking after.
7. He suggests in your heart, "THERE IS NO NEED FOR YOU TO PERFORM ACTS OF OBEDIENCE to Allah. Truly, if you were created and destined to be among the people of bliss, then there is no danger in you neglecting the acts of worship. And if you were created and destined to be among the people of wretchedness, then there is no benefit in doing them.
Repel him, if Allah protects you, by realizing that you are a slave. And that it the duty of a slave to obey the commands as is the right of servitude (`ubuudiyya).
Allah is the Rabb, and He knows the rights of Lordship (rubuubiyya). Thus these acts of obedience will benefit you in every way if you were created and destined to be among the people of bliss. It will benefit you by increasing your reward. And if you were not created and destined for bliss, then in no way Allah will punish you for acts of obedience. These acts of obedience will not harm you. For to be entered into the fire while you are obedient to Allah is more precious to you than your being entered into the fire while you are disobedient.
And how is it possible for you to enter the fire when the Promise of Allah is true and His Words are Truthful. For He has promised a tremendous reward for acts of obedience. Whoever meets Allah Ta`ala while he has faith and obedience will never enter the fire and he has dully earned the Paradise by the Promise of Allah the Truthful and not by any act. It is in that Allah has informed us by His saying, " Allah`s praises are due to Allah who made good to us His Promise and has made us inherit the earth and we may abide in the Paradise whenever we please. Excellent is the Reward of those who work. [39:74].
Therefore my brothers, wake up! It is as He said. So seek the aid of Allah alone and seek refuge with Him. All matters are in His hands and from Him alone is success. And there is no power nor might except with Allah the Exalted the Great.
Shaykh `Uthman Dan Fodio
Tareeqah Al-Jannah Bab Muhaarabatush-Shaytaan-(On the War with Shaytaan)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] Shaykh Uthman Dan-Fodia (1168-1232 AH/1744-1817 CE) was a scholar, a valiant mujaahid and a caring teacher who had spent 29 years of his life teaching as an itinerant. He had to confront three unfortunate and powerful institutions at his time, the tyrannical aristocracy, the 'Sarauta' or rapacious so-called 'Ulema and the selfish business community. He tactfully avoided any deal with the tyrannical ruling class. His high moral integrity can be gauged from the fact that he declared receipt of gifts, accommodation, and donation from an oppressive judge, ruler, governmental functionary and even a scholar of such type as illegal.
He was appointed to lead the Sokoto mujaahidoon in 1219 AH/1804 CE against the well-trained and better equipped Gobir forces that were composed of the Fulani, the Hausas and the Tuareq and dealt them a humiliating and crushing defeat.
He once said, "We have now unfortunately reached a state whereby you could hardly get one who could admit his mistake and weakness, and therefore return to what is right, no matter how clear it becomes to him due to principally his megalomania and self-applause."
On another occasion after a battle he addressed the public and said, "I am (now) left in the midst of liars and hypocrites, who say one thing and do entirely another. People who do not value knowledge and its pursuit... People who are unmindful of struggle for social justice... People whose pre-occupation is attainment of political power for the procurement of sensual comfort through concubines, flutists, gorgeous clothing and brisk horses which they display in towns and cities, not on the battlefields. They are a people who will accuse you of extremism once your opinion is in conflict with theirs, no matter how deeply rooted yours is in the (Islamic) authorities."
May Allah Almighty have mercy upon his soul and grant him al-Jannat al-Firdous. How more truly his noble words ring today!
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