Who Misguided the Devil?
Mohammad Asifullah from Banglore asks,
‘If the Devil is the result of God’s wrath then why do we curse the Devil? He also comes from God. Please enlighten me’.
This is a system of God in which God has created a character called Shaitan (Satan/Devil).
And I think the Devil is simply fulfilling his duty as assigned to him by God.
Those whom God has to send to hellfire, the Devil ensures they achieve their destiny.
Now, since guidance and misguidance both are in the hands of God, then why do we hate the Devil?
When it’s about power, in light of the Quran and Prophetic Traditions, we would say that guidance and misguidance both are in the hands of God.
This is our belief.
But when it comes to guidance and misguidance, we put the blame on the Devil.
‘He has become misguided. The Devil was behind his misguidance’.
Have you ever heard anyone saying, ‘God misguided him’?
Either it was the Devil who misguides people or they become misguided themselves.
Whereas, the Quran states that guidance and misguidance are both in the hands of God.
God created the Devil as part of his staff.
Those who are supposed to enter hellfire, the Devil, so to speak, guides them towards their destination.
It is clearly written in the Holy Quran, the statement of the Devil.
The Devil said, ‘O Lord, I swear by your honour’
‘fa bi 'izzatika la ughwiyannahum ajma'een' - O Lord, I swear by your honour, I will misguide them all
‘Illaa 'ibaadaka minhumul mukhlaseen' - for except those who are loyal to you
He can’t misguide them.
The sincere and loyal people are those who have been granted guidance by God.
Those whom God has granted guidance cannot be misguided by the devil.
Those whom God has not granted guidance are the ones the Devil goes after.
Therefore, misguidance is neither in your hands nor is the in the hands of the Devil.
This entire game is played by God.
He can grant guidance and he can misguide anyone he chooses.
It’s in God’s hands and the rest is just a formality whereby the responsibility is labeled upon others.
One day, Moses was going to the Mount of Sinai when he encountered the Devil on his way.
The Devil asked him, ‘Where are you headed?’
Moses replied, ‘I am going to the Mount of Sinai to speak to God’.
The Devil said, ‘Really? Well, I have a question I want you to ask God on my behalf’.
Moses said, ‘Sure, fire away’.
The Devil said, ‘I misguide everyone. I want you to ask God who misguided me?’
He asked, ‘Who misguided me?’
So Moses went and asked, ‘O God, the Devil appeared before me and said, ‘’I misguide people but ask God who was behind my misguidance?’’’
And God said, ‘Oh, forget him. Don’t listen to him’.
‘Don’t listen to him’.
So Moses returned.
And the Devil appeared before him again and asked, ‘So did you ask God?’
And Moses replied, ‘Wouldn’t it have been better if you sought forgiveness and prostrated to Adam? You wouldn’t be where you are today’.
The Devil said, ‘You prostrated to him. What did you get out of it?’
‘You bowed down before Adam, right? What did you gain from it?’
Moses said, ‘Look at me, I was granted Prophethood’.
The Devil said, ‘Yes, I can see you were granted Prophethood but you were not granted the power to withstand.'
'When God sent his theophany down upon the Mount of Sinai, you fell unconscious.'
'The only one who was granted a real rank was Prophet Mohammad. No one else was granted anything’.
And the truth is that everything works in accordance with the system of God.
Is it possible for the Devil to misguide someone God has chosen for guidance?
Does the Devil have more power than God?
It’s not like someone was just about to be granted guidance but the Devil swooped in and misguided him.
So it’s just the divine system and everyone has a role to play.
Neither can anyone grant guidance to someone nor misguide someone.
It is all in the hands of God
and God said [in the Quran], ‘Whoever I grant guidance to is the guided one. And those whom I misguide will never find a Spiritual Master’.
The one who is misguided by God cannot be granted guidance by anyone.
And the one whom God grants guidance to cannot be misguided by anyone.
The rest is just a hoax.
Humans have no control over anything.
They say humans are an independent species.
How is that so?
We are all dependent one way or another.
What control do human beings really have?
Do they have any control?
It is said that certain souls ‘’selected’’ the world and others ‘’selected’’ paradise [in the Primordial Times].
That’s good.
But what control do we really have?
There is no creation more desperate and powerless than man.
The animals, when they die, they simply die.
They don’t face the torment of the grave.
They don’t have to go through the torment of the grave, they are not asked questions.
They don’t go to heaven or hell.
None of this is for the animals.
They live, they die. That’s it.
But humans face a lot of problems.
We have relationships.
Have you ever seen a dog arguing with another dog?
All the animals just live their lives.
The animals roam about in peace.
Have you ever seen donkeys, horses and dogs crying about domestic issues?
All these animals are carefree.
Human beings are the one who face these troubles.
Dogs don’t have to worry about misguidance or bad company.
They don’t have to worry about female dogs.
Right?
Only humans face problems.
Animals are free.
Perhaps you think I am joking.
This is not a joke.
What control do humans have?
Nothing has made me believe that human beings have any control.
If you are to become a devout believer it can only happen with the will of God
otherwise you will be wasting your time in the Deobandi, Barelvi or Ahle Hadith mosques.
Just a waste of time.
You break your back prostrating day and night,
you get the mark of prostration on your forehead
and you think you will achieve a great rank and be sent to paradise.
But you are unaware of the reality.
One does make efforts to do good deeds and earn entry into paradise
but it isn’t enough.
For instance, it is written in the Quran that one obtains that for which one endeavours.
The Wahhabis, Deobandis and Barelvis do make efforts to find God but have they found God?
So everything is dependent on the will of God. That’s it.
Whoever God grants guidance will be guided.
If God does not grant guidance to you, it doesn’t matter if you are born in Kaaba or the Prophet’s Mosque
or even if you consume the entire Quran, it makes no difference whatsoever.
Everything is in the hands of God, he can grant guidance to or misguide anyone.
Human beings have absolutely no control over anything.
Truth be told, is there anything worse than life in this world?
I don’t know why people imagine hell to be a terrible place.
This world is worse than hell.
This world and the human beings herein are worse than the Devil.
You may sacrifice your life for someone but receive nothing but torment in return.
Despite everything you do, you get nothing in return.
So why hate the Devil when man is a greater Devil than Devil himself.
Remember when the angels objected to God and said, ‘Why are you making man again? He will only spread mischief and shed blood once again’.
They were right, weren’t they?
The knowledge of eminence that God granted to Adam the Eminent One, how many people obtained that knowledge in this world?
Those who did obtain that knowledge were rectified
but the majority of mankind is involved in wrongdoings.
The way God said [to the angels] that he has granted [Adam] the knowledge of his names,
it seemed like the new batch of humans would all be eminent
and no human being would be involved in bloodshed or mischief.
The statement from God made it seem like none of these atrocities will happen again
because now God has granted the name of his names and the world will become a paradise and man will have great eminence.
But only a few individuals in every era obtained that knowledge of eminence.
One person would become pure and the rest of the herd would beat him up.
Continuous Mischief and corruption.
Mischief and corruption has not stopped.
When did it ever stop?
God said to the angels that now that he has granted Adam the knowledge of his names, mischief and corruption will come to an end.
But the two sons of Adam, Abel and Cain, fought each other and one killed the other.
Here you go.
It didn’t even stop with Adam’s progeny.
Even with the progeny of Adam.
God said that he granted Adam the knowledge of eminence so mischief and bloodshed will cease.
Adam descended to earth with that knowledge, he had children and then his children killed each other.
This is man.
I do not believe there is a greater devil than man.
There is no greater devil than man.
Human beings often put the Devil to shame.
If human beings were to compete with the Devil, I don’t think the Devil would win.
People are quick to blame the Devil, but where is the Devil?
Have you ever seen the Devil?
There is no greater devil than man.
Human beings are so ungrateful.
When people keep dogs as pets, the dogs love their owners so much, unconditional love.
They protect their owners.
But human beings are so hardened.
'You' - I am talking generally.
You may help someone daily and care for them but you miss just one day,
although that person has no rights on you because you are doing them a favour,
but you skip one day for a reason and that person will forget everything you have done for them in one second and say, ‘You are my enemy’.
Human beings are such that they will accept the servitude of others, make others respect them
but they will never respect or help someone even momentarily and still, they will say that the rest of the world is bad.
This is man.
People are just opportunists, they will take everything from you and still curse you and call you a devil.
And when you do favours for them, they think it is their birthright.