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Inna ashshaytana lakumAAaduwwun
The Shaytan is an enemy. fattakhithoohu AAaduwwan
He is an enemy so treat him as an enemy.
Aaaduwwan mubeen
Allah says in another verse, he is a clear enemy.
There is no hiding that fact.
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says,
yuwaswisu fee sudoori annas
Shaytan at times will try to influence your mind,
and your inner dialogue to invite yourself to haram.
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And I want you to know that there's a difference
between you choosing haram and the Shaytan inspiring you
and whispering to you to do haram.
How do we know the difference? Because not all mistakes is
because Shaytan influenced you. Most of,
if not the vast majority
of mistakes we do is because of our own bad habits.
So, the first type of mistake that's from your own self
are the mistakes that you do regularly.
So, if every morning you miss fajr,
Shaytan has nothing to do with it.
That's just you. It's just yourself, not waking up.
It's just you making a decision
to not get up when you should.
And that becomes important for you to correct.
Stop blaming Shaytan. Shaytan's like, hey!
Why do you blame me for everything? Right?
It's important for us to be careful with that.
But the mistakes that are from the Shaytan
are the ones that are opportunistic.
So there you are,
you weren't intending to do anything wrong.
And all of a sudden your parents say, hey!
We're going to leave you for a half an hour.
So, I'm just going to go to the store.
So, it's an opportunity.
And the Shaytan comes and says, hey, why don't you do this?
Why don't you watch this? Why don't you read this?
Why didn't you go there? Why didn't you hear that?
And it's something you didn't plan on doing earlier
but the Shaytan kind of sparked it.
And then your soul convinced itself. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm going to do it. I can't wait until I get this done
or do this, or do that. So, be careful
with the Shaytan's opportunities to haram,
that he opens a door for you, gives you an invitation
and you're the one who walks through it.
Shaytan is going to give a lecture when he's in hell fire
with those who are in it. And Shaytan will say on that day
fala taloomoonee waloomoo anfusakum
Allah quotes what will be said in the future,
Shaytan will say to his people, don't blame me
but blame yourself,
ma anabimusrikhikum
I didn't make you do anything.
wama antum bimusrikhiyya
You can't help me today and I can't help you today.
This is your fault for what you did.
illa an daAAawtukum fastajabtumlee
All I did was give you an invitation.
You're the one that walked through the door.
You're the one that came and did the Haram
and chose it yourselves.
May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la protect us
from a sinful inner dialogue and from the second danger
from the Shaytan, being an influence in our life.
Know, of course, that the Shaytan
is not just a whisper inside. And Shaytan does not
just simply mean the one who is an unseen
evil presence, but Allah tells us in the Qur'an
shayateena al-insi waljinn
that there are Shaytan from human beings.
It could be your friend, could be that person who calls you
and says, hey, do you want to go out tonight?
Let's get in the car. We could go visit there or do this.
It could be someone who's in your class,
who keeps crossing the boundaries.
Because, what does the word Shaytan mean?
The word shata
means to go past the place you know you shouldn't,
to go into transgression, to go to a place.
Everybody said, don't cross that line.
The Shaytan says, I'm gonna go there. No one can stop me.
I do what I want.
So, if you have a friend in your life,
if you have someone who lives their life that way,
where they feel that there's no rules, no boundaries,
nobody can say to me what I want to do
or I'm going to do what I want to do when nobody's looking,
that person is a Shaytan
and you want to limit their influence on you.
So, you want to limit their texts and their messages
and your going out with them to be careful
that the Shaytan is not an influence to you
in a physical form, as a friend or as a human being,
or as a whisper into the hearts.
May Allah protect us from
shayateena al-insi waljinn
Allahumma ameen.