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MuslimCentral is often times when we talk about what leads a person down this path of following their desires and leads them to a path of sin and leads them to a place of violating the rules of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and leads them to a place of forgetting their purpose.

We often address the footsteps of Shaitan, the footsteps of the devil and the whispers of the devil from a place of Asshahwa, from the place of desire.

But it's not a lot. One thing that's very interesting when you read about the tactics of the Shaitan, of the devil within the Quran and how the prophets like some spoke about them, is that it's often that the Shaitan enters into a person's soul from a place of fear, from a place of insecurity, from the place where that person feels most vulnerable and then takes that and exploits it into a desire to be desirable, a desire to be wealthy.

A desire to be secured, a desire to have the places and the access that they felt like they were unworthy of should they not compromise on the very principles and purpose that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has given to them.

What I mean by that is that the Shaitan enters from a place of fear and it's very interesting because if you look at the way that marketing works, many times it's to exploit an insecurity, create an insecurity and then exploit an insecurity.

People have body image issues and so there are all types of products that are marketed towards the insecurity of body image.

People have issues with social acceptance and so there are all sorts of products and things that are marketed towards social validation.

All of these different things are marketed to feast on and exploit an insecurity.

Subhanallah, I want us to actually look through in these few minutes in Shaitan, some of the verses of the Quran and some of the Ahadith of the prophets like some in this regard and then think about how this works.

The prophets like Salam, and this is a Hadith from a companion by the name of Sabrah, Ibn Abi Thakih, radiya Allahu ta'ala anhu.

Subhanallah, I believe it's the only Hadith that he narrates, if not one of the only Ahadith that he narrates.

And what a Hadith to narrate from the prophet Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

Qara Samir Rasulallah, Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam Ya Qulhees, that I heard the prophets like Salam say.

In the Shaitan, Akad al-Ibn Adam, Ibn Atruqihi, that verily the Shaitan has sat on every single path.

He tries to obstruct every path that the son of Adam, that the child of Adam wishes to take.

So Akad al-Ahubi tariq al-Islam.

So he first tries to obstruct his path to Islam.

How many people sat in Makkah and believed that the prophet of Allah, Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam was indeed the prophet of Allah,

but they thought about the consequences of embracing that message.

Hence they never embraced that message and they sat back in Makkah and they waited to see what would happen.

Many of them probably passing away before they had the opportunity to embrace Islam.

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