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Ibn Al-Qayyam also mentions when he talks about the wisdom of the creation of shaytan,

that is important to understand how shaytan gets to us, just to briefly summarize some of the main things.

Obviously, of the simple tactics of shaytan is the tactic to cause us to forget, to cause us to neglect.

And this is alhamdulillah, we thank Allah that if shaytan succeeds, we are not held accountable.

If we forget something, so of the tactics of shaytan, is he causes us to not think about our timing of salah,

we don't realize his time to pray, we don't realize, for example, we can sometimes over sleep,

even though we wanted to wake up, shaytan might help us in extending that sleep.

We don't wake up at all.

Anytime this happens, it is from shaytan, once in the lifetime of the process and he over slept, Fajr.

It is a wisdom of Allah, if Allah had wanted to, he would never have over slept Fajr.

And he over slept Fajr, because it was the battle the day before, and the army was tired,

they want to sleep late at night, he stationed Bilal to wake them up for Fajr, and Bilal himself fell asleep,

and the whole army over slept Fajr.

Their excuse, by the way, was jihad the previous day.

Their excuse wasn't watching a film the previous day, it was doing jihad the previous day.

So if there is any excuse, then that is that excuse.

The process in woke up and said, this is an area where shaytan so and so is, we will move somewhere else.

And he blamed it on shaytan.

So shaytan kind of sort of helped them persist in that sleep, or he caused them to forget,

and so the till qah, wa ma'an sanihu illa shaytanu an ad-kurah.

That shaytan caused me to forget.

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