The Characteristics Of Satan

THE TASK OF SATAN IS TO LEAD PEOPLE ASTRAY

Do you not see those who claim that they believe in what has been sent down to you and what was sent down before you, still desiring to turn to a satanic source for judgement in spite of being ordered to reject it? Satan wants to misguide them far away. (Qur'an, 4:60)

He said, 'By Your misguidance of me, I will lie in ambush for them on your straight path. (Then I will come at them, from in front of them and behind them, from their right and from their left. You will not find most of them thankful. ' He said, 'Get out of it, reviled and driven out. As for those of them who follow you, I will fill up Hell with every one of you.' (Qur'an, 7:16-18)

Recite to them the tale of him to whom We gave Our Signs, but who then cast them to one side and satan caught up with him. He was one of those lured into error. (Qur'an, 7:175)

When satan made their actions appear good to them, saying, 'No one will overcome you today for I am at your side.' But when the two parties came in sight of one another, he turned right round on his heels saying, 'I wash my hands of you. I see what you do not see. I fear Allah. Allah is severe in retribution.' (Qur'an, 8:48)

I found both her and her people prostrating to the sun instead of Allah. Satan has made their actions seem good to them and debarred them from the Way so they are not guided (Qur'an, 27:24)

He (Musa) entered the city at a time when its inhabitants were unaware and found two men fighting there— one from his party and the other from his enemy. The one from his party asked for his support against the other from his enemy. So Musa hit him, dealing him a fatal blow. He said, 'This is part of satan's handiwork. He truly is an outright and misleading enemy.' (Qur'an, 28:15)

HE DECEIVES MAN

I will lead them astray and fill them with false hopes. I will command them and they will cut off cattle's ears. I will command them and they will change Allah's creation. Anyone who takes satan as his protector in place of Allah has clearly lost everything. He makes promises to them and fills them with false hopes. But what satan promises them is nothing but delusion.(Qur'an, 4:119-120)

Say: 'Are we to call on something besides Allah which can neither help nor harm us, and to turn on our heels after Allah has guided us, like someone the satans have lured away in the earth, leaving him confused and stupefied, despite the fact that he has companions calling him to guidance, saying, "Come with us!"?' Say: 'Allah's guidance that is true guidance. We are commanded to submit as Muslims to the Lord of all the worlds. (Qur'an, 6:71)

Stir up any of them you can with your voice and rally against them your cavalry and your infantry and share with them in their children and their wealth and make them promises! The promise of satan is nothing but delusion. (Qur'an, 17:64)

They are like satan when he says to a human being, 'Disbelieve,' and then when he becomes an unbeliever, says, 'I wash my hands of you. Truly I fear Allah, the Lord of all the worlds.' (Qur'an, 59:16)

Children of Adam! Do not let satan tempt you into trouble as He expelled your parents from the Garden, stripping them of their covering and disclosing to them their private parts. He and his tribe see you from where you do not see them. We have made the satans friends of those who have no faith. (Qur'an, 7:27)

When satan made their actions appear good to them, saying, 'No one will overcome you today for I am at your side.' But when the two parties came in sight of one another, he turned right round on his heels saying, 'I wash my hands of you. I see what you do not see. I fear Allah. Allah is severe in retribution.' (Qur'an, 8:48)

HIS SCHEMING IS ALWAYS POWERLESS
AGAINST THOSE WHO BELIEVE

When the affair is decided satan will say, 'Allah made you a promise, a promise of truth, and I made you a promise but broke my promise. I had no authority over you, except that I called you and you responded to me. Do not, therefore, blame me but blame yourselves. I cannot come to your aid nor you to mine. I reject the way you associated me with Allah before.' The wrongdoers will have a painful punishment. (Qur'an, 14:22)

Diabolis was correct in his assessment of them and they followed him, except for a group of the believers. He had no authority over them except to enable Us to know those who believe in the hereafter from those who are in doubt about it. Your Lord is the Preserver of all things. (Qur'an, 34:20-21)

Those who believe fight in the Way of Allah. Those who do not believe fight in the way of false gods. So fight the friends of satan! Satan's scheming is always feeble. (Qur'an, 4:76)

HE CAN ONLY DECEIVE THOSE
WHO TAKE HIM AS THEIR FRIEND

It was only satan frightening you through his friends. But do not fear them— fear Me if you are believers. (Qur'an, 3:175)

HE DESCENDS ON THOSE WHO DENY

Shall I tell you upon whom the satans descend? They descend on every evil liar. They give them a hearing and most of them are liars. (Qur'an, 26:221-223)

EVERYONE, SAVE THE BELIEVERS,
FOLLOWS HIM

Diabolis was correct in his assessment of them and they followed him, except for a group of the believers. (Qur'an, 34:20)

THE BELIEVERS SEEK REFUGE
IN ALLAH FROM THE EVIL IMPULSES OF SATAN

If an evil impulse from satan provokes you, seek refuge in Allah. He is All-Hearing, All-Seeing. As for those who guard against evil, when they are bothered by visitors from satan, they remember and immediately see clearly. (Qur'an, 7:200-201)

Say: 'My Lord, I seek refuge with You from the goadings of the satans, and I seek refuge with You, my Lord, from their presence.' (Qur'an, 23:97-98)

When she gave birth, she said, 'My Lord! I have given birth to a girl'—and Allah knew very well what she had given birth to, male and female are not the same—'and I have named her Maryam and placed her and her children in Your safekeeping from the accursed satan.' (Qur'an, 3:36)

If an evil urge from satan eggs you on, seek refuge in Allah. He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing. (Qur'an, 41:36)

HE IS PEOPLES' ENEMY

Mankind! Eat what is good and lawful on the earth. And do not follow in the footsteps of satan. He truly is an outright enemy to you. He only commands you to do evil and indecent acts and to say about Allah what you do not know. (Qur'an, 2:168-169)

And also animals for riding and for haulage and animals for slaughtering and for wool. Eat what Allah has provided for you and do not follow in the footsteps of satan. He is an outright enemy to you. (Qur'an, 6:142)

When We said to the angels, 'Prostrate yourselves to Adam,' they prostrated with the exception of Diabolis. He was one of the jinn and wantonly deviated from his Lord's command. Do you take him and his offspring as protectors apart from Me when they are your enemy? How evil is the exchange the wrongdoers make! (Qur'an, 18:50)

Did I not make a contract with you, tribe of Adam, not to worship satan, who truly is an outright enemy to you. (Qur'an, 36:60)

He said, 'My son, don't tell your brothers your dream lest they devise some scheme to injure you, satan is a clear-cut enemy to man. (Qur'an, 12:5)

HE GIVES EVIL IMPULSES AND FALSE HOPES

I will lead them astray and fill them with false hopes. I will command them and they will cut off cattle's ears. I will command them and they will change Allah's creation.' Anyone who takes satan as his protector in place of Allah has clearly lost everything. He makes promises to them and fills them with false hopes. But what satan promises them is nothing but delusion. (Qur'an, 4:119-120)

If an evil urge from satan eggs you on, seek refuge in Allah.He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing. (Qur'an, 41:36)

Then satan whispered to them, disclosing to them their private parts that had been concealed from them. He said, 'Your Lord has only forbidden you this tree lest you become angels or among those who live for ever.' (Qur'an, 7:20)

But satan whispered to him, saying, 'Adam, shall I show you the way to the Tree of Everlasting Life and to a kingdom which will never fade away?' (Qur'an, 20:120)

HE ENCOURAGES EXTRAVAGANCE

Squanderers are brothers to the satans, and satan was ungrateful to his Lord. (Qur'an, 17:27)

HE THREATENS PEOPLE WITH POVERTY
AND COMMANDS THEM TO BE AVARICIOUS

Satan threatens you with poverty and commands you to avarice. Allah promises you forgiveness from Him and abundance. Allah is All-Encompassing, All-Knowing. (Qur'an, 2:268)

HE COMMANDS PEOPLE TO COMMIT EVIL

You who believe! Wine and gambling, stone altars and divining arrows are filth from the handiwork of satan. Avoid them completely so that hopefully you will be successful. (Qur'an, 5:90)

I will lead them astray and fill them with false hopes. I will command them and they will cut off cattle's ears. I will command them and they will change Allah's creation.' Anyone who takes satan as his protector in place of Allah has clearly lost everything. (Qur'an, 4:119)

You who believe! Do not follow in the footsteps of satan. Anyone who follows in satan's footsteps should know that he commands indecency and wrongdoing. Were it not for Allah's favour to you and His mercy, not one of you would ever have been purified. But Allah purifies whoever He wills. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (Qur'an, 24:21)

They follow what the satans recited in the reign of Sulayman. Sulayman did not believe, but the satans did, teaching people sorcery and what had been sent down to Harut and Marut, the two angels in Babylon, who taught no one without first saying to him, 'We are merely a trial and temptation, so do not believe.' People learned from them how to separate a man and his wife but they cannot harm anyone by it, except with Allah's permission. They have learned what will harm them and will not benefit them. They know that any who deal in it will have no share in the hereafter. What an evil thing they have sold themselves for if they only knew! (Qur'an, 2:102)

HE LEADS PEOPLE TO TREACHERY

Conferring in secret is from satan, to cause grief to those who believe; but it cannot harm them at all, unless by Allah's permission. So let the believers put their trust in Allah. (Qur'an, 58:10)

HE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH
GOODNESS AND BENEVOLENCE

What they call on apart from Him are female idols. What they call on is an arrogant satan. (Qur'an, 4:117)

HE TAINTS PEOPLE

And when He overcame you with sleep, making you feel secure, and sent you down water from heaven to purify you and remove the taint of satan from you, and to fortify your hearts and make your feet firm. (Qur'an, 8:11)

HE TRIES TO MAKE EVIL SEEM
ATTRACTIVE TO PEOPLE

If only they had humbled themselves when Our violent force came upon them! However, their hearts were hard and satan made what they were doing seem attractive to them. (Qur'an, 6:43)

And 'Ad and Thamud—it must be clear to you from their dwelling places! Satan made their actions seem good to them and so debarred them from the Way, even though they were intelligent people. (Qur'an, 29:38)

When satan made their actions appear good to them, saying, 'No one will overcome you today for I am at your side.' But when the two parties came in sight of one another, he turned right round on his heels saying, 'I wash my hands of you. I see what you do not see. I fear Allah. Allah is severe in retribution.' (Qur'an, 8:48)

I found both her and her people prostrating to the sun instead of Allah. Satan has made their actions seem good to them and debarred them from the Way so they are not guided (Qur'an, 27:24)

HE CAN MAKE PEOPLE FORGET THINGS

When you see people engrossed in mockery of Our Signs, turn from them until they start to talk of other things. And if satan should ever cause you to forget, once you remember, do not stay sitting with the wrongdoers. (Qur'an, 6:68)

He said, 'Do you see what has happened? When we went to find shelter at the rock, I forgot the fish. No one made me forget to remember it except satan. It found its way into the sea in an amazing way.' (Qur'an, 18:63)

He said to the one of them he knew was saved, 'Please mention me when you are with your lord,' but satan made him forget to remind his lord, and so he stayed in prison for several years. (Qur'an, 12:42)

HE TRIES TO PREVENT PEOPLE
FROM REMEMBERING ALLAH
AND WORSHIPPING HIM

Satan wants to stir up enmity and hatred between you by means of wine and gambling, and to debar you from remembrance of Allah and from prayer. Will you not then give them up? (Qur'an, 5:91)

Satan has gained mastery over them and made them forget the remembrance of Allah. Such people are the party of satan. No indeed! It is the party of satan who are the losers. (Qur'an, 58:19)

He led me astray from the Reminder after it came to me. Satan always leaves man in the lurch. (Qur'an, 25:29)

HE DISTRACTS PEOPLE WITH FALSE HOPES

Those who have turned back in their tracks after the guidance became clear to them, it was satan who talked them into it and filled them with false hopes. (Qur'an, 47:25)

HE SEEKS TO STIR UP HATRED
AND ENMITY AMONG PEOPLE

Satan wants to stir up enmity and hatred between you by means of wine and gambling, and to debar you from remembrance of Allah and from prayer. Will you not then give them up? (Qur'an, 5:91)

Say to My servants that they should only say the best. Satan wants to stir up trouble between them. Satan is an outright enemy to man. (Qur'an, 17:53)

He raised his parents up onto the throne. The others fell prostrate in front of him. He said, 'My father, truly this is now the interpretation of the dream I had. My Lord has made it all come true; and He was kind to me by letting me out of prison and brought you from the desert when satan had caused dissent between me and my brothers. My Lord is kind to anyone He wills. He is indeed All-Knowing and All-Wise. (Qur'an, 12:100)

HE IS INSOLENT AND
DISOBEDIENT TO ALLAH

We said to the angels, 'Prostrate to Adam!' and they prostrated, with the exception of Diabolis. He refused and was arrogant and was one of the unbelievers. (Qur'an, 2:34)

We created you and then formed you and then We said to the angels, 'Prostrate before Adam,' and they prostrated—except for Diabolis. He was not among those who prostrated. (Qur'an, 7:11)

Except Diabolis. He disdained to be one of the prostrators. (Qur'an, 15:31)

When We said to the angels, 'Prostrate yourselves to Adam!' they prostrated, except for Diabolis. He said 'What! Am I to prostrate to one You have created out of clay?' (Qur'an, 17:61)

When We said to the angels, 'Prostrate yourselves to Adam!' they prostrated, with the exception of Diabolis who disdained to do it. (Qur'an, 20:116)

Father, do not worship satan. Satan was disobedient to the All-Merciful. (Qur'an, 19:44)

And guarded it against every defiant satan. (Qur'an, 37:7)

HE IS UNGRATEFUL TO ALLAH

Squanderers are brothers to the satans, and satan was ungrateful to his Lord. (Qur'an, 17:27)

HE LIES

When the affair is decided satan will say, 'Allah made you a promise, a promise of truth, and I made you a promise but broke my promise. I had no authority over you, except that I called you and you responded to me. Do not, therefore, blame me but blame yourselves. I cannot come to your aid nor you to mine. I reject the way you associated me with Allah before.' The wrongdoers will have a painful punishment. (Qur'an, 14:22)

In this way We have appointed as enemies to every Prophet satans from both mankind and from the jinn, who inspire each other with delusions by means of specious words—if your Lord had willed, they would not have done it, so abandon them and all they fabricate. (Qur'an, 6:112)

HE HAS BEEN BANISHED FROM ALLAH'S
SIGHT AND HE IS CURSED

When she gave birth, she said, 'My Lord! I have given birth to a girl'—and Allah knew very well what she had given birth to, male and female are not the same—'and I have named her Maryam and placed her and her children in Your safekeeping from the accursed satan.' (Qur'an, 3:36)

Nor is it (the Qur'an) the word of an accursed satan. (Qur'an, 81:25)

We have guarded them from every cursed satan. (Qur'an, 15:17)