SATAN’S ADDRESS
Recriminations in an attempt to distance themselves from punishment have always been the language of evildoers.
This phenomenon occurs in degrees.
A lesser variation occurs when people rationalise their actions: He made me angry; my blood boils every time she makes me repeat myself; he made me do it; he cut me off; rainy weather dulls my mood; he never picks up his clothes, and a hundred more iterations.
The ego dislikes accepting responsibility for its actions, especially when the consequences are unfavourable.
In a stunning verse, Allah advertises Satan’s Judgment Day lecture that speaks to this character defect: ‘When everything has been decided, Satan will say, ‘God gave you a true promise. I, too, promised you, but mine were false: I had no power over you except to call you, and you responded to my call, so do not blame me; blame yourselves. I cannot help you, nor can you help me. I reject the way you associated me with God before.’ A bitter torment awaits such wrongdoers’ [14:22].
To err is to be human. It is not if we err, but when.
Thus, Allah has built penance and amends into the Muslim lifecycle to raise us in humility and character. And to increase our consideration for others.
Acknowledging and amending our error does not demean us; it ennobles us, strengthens ties, and brings us closer to God.
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GOOD TREE, BAD TREE
Call to the truth, then stand firm like a good tree, just as the Prophet (s) did: ‘I swear by God, if they put the sun in my right hand and the moon in my left on condition that I abandon this course before He hath made it victorious, or I have perished therein, I would not abandon it’ [Muhammad, pg 52, Martin Lings].
In the chapter of the great patriarch, Ibrahim (as), Allah calls on us to be sowers of truth and goodness, the universal language of the world, and to leave the harvest to Him, using the parable of the good tree and the bad tree.
The truth is like a goodly tree rooted firmly with its branches turning towards the heavens. It basks in the light and produces flowers bearing blessed fruit at all times. [14:24]
While evil words, falsehoods, slanted speech and hasbara are like an evil tree with rotten, sundered and unstable roots that cannot produce any good. [14:25]
Preachers who summon their flocks to Zionism are leading them headlong into perdition. We must guide Zionists within our sister-faiths to a better way, that they may turn away from such evil, just as the call had rung out for millennia: “These be thy gods, O Israel!” [Exodus, 32:8].
The Zionists’ cup of iniquity seems full, but then they shock us with something even more diabolical than before. It is because their iniquity has hemmed them in and keeps them parlaying with Diablo.
But we must remind them of a day when no amount of bargaining will help them, and that Zionism and those associated with it will universally be hated and despised.
Until next week, InshaAllah
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Zaahied Sallie
Author of The Beloved Prophet – An Illustrated Biography in Rhyme
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