O You Who Believe

6)

"O you who have believed, enter into Islam completely [and perfectly] and do not follow the footsteps of Satan. Indeed, he is to you a clear enemy."

[Al Baqarah 2:208]

Allah commands the believers to enter into Islam completely. This includes all kinds of things; sincere obedience to One Allah, turning back towards all types of sins, surrendering to Allah and worshipping him alone.

When Iblees (the Satan) refused to prostrate to Adam, Allah expelled him from heaven and the curse of Allah is upon him until the Day of Resurrection. Allah said to him:

"Then get out from here; for verily, you are outcast. And verily, My Curse is on you till the Day of Recompense"

[Qur'an 38:77-78]

Then he asked Allah to grant him respite until the Resurrection, and He granted him that:

"(Iblees) said: 'Allow me respite till the Day they are raised up (i.e. the Day of Resurrection).'

(Allah) said: 'You are of those respited'"

[Qur'an 7:14-15]

When Iblees felt safe from destruction, he rebelled and transgressed:

"(Iblees) said: 'Because You have sent me astray, surely, I will sit in wait against them (human beings) on Your straight path.

Then I will come to them from before them and behind them, from their right and from their left, and You will not find most of them as thankful ones (i.e. they will not be dutiful to You)'"

[Qur'an 7:16-17]

When Iblees said this, Allah said to him:

"(Allah) said: 'Go, and whosoever of them follows you, surely, Hell will be the recompense of you (all) an ample recompense.

And befool them gradually those whom you can among them with your voice (i.e. songs, music, and any other call for Allaah's disobedience), make assaults on them with your cavalry and your infantry, share with them wealth and children (by tempting them to earn money by illegal ways usury, or by committing illegal sexual intercourse), and make promises to them.' But Satan promises them nothing but deceit.

'Verily, My slaves (i.e. the true believers of Islamic Monotheism) - you have no authority over them. And All-Sufficient is your Lord as a Guardian'"

[Qur'an 17:62-64]

Hence the Shaytaan declared his evil and his enmity towards the children of Adam, so he started to make sin attractive to them and to tempt them with haraam (unlawful) and evil things, and to enjoin evil and immoral actions upon them. Thus most of the people were deceived by him and they fell into those sins and haraam things:

"And indeed Iblees (Satan) did prove true his thought about them, and they followed him, all except a group of true believers (in the Oneness of Allaah)."

[Saba' 34:20]

Everything that happens among the sons of Adam of kufr (disbelief), murder, enmity, hatred, the spread of immorality and zina (adultery/fornication), the wanton display of women's beauty, drinking alcohol, worshipping idols and other major sins, is all the work of the Shaytaan, in order to prevent people from following the way of Allah and to corrupt mankind and drag them to the Fire of Hell with him: