It is said...

It is said, “ Al-wudhu nūr wal wudhu ‘alal wudhu nūrun ‘ala nūr” (Wudhu is a light and performing a wudhu over another is light upon light!). This is the light that dispels the darkness created by Satan in the hearts of the persons. Fasting and charity break the backbone of Satan In the armory of a mu’min there are certain arms about which the Prophet (S) has made a particular mention. He (S) said: “ Fasts of a mu’min blacken the face of Satan. Sadaqa or charity breaks the backbone of Satan.

Istighfar — entreaty with Allah for mercy — will cut Satan’s vein of life, and love of Allah and good deeds of the person uproot Satan. ”[^2] When you fast the face of Satan, your enemy, will be blackened. If the curtains are raised from your eyes, you will notice that Satan’s face has turned black on account of your fasts. But Satan is not so weak and emaciated that only by fasting you get his face blackened and with a strike of charity you shatter his backbone.

You have to perform every action with absolute sincerity that they pass through the seven curtains and break Satan’s backbone and destroy him. Now let us talk about Sadaqa or charity. According to what the Prophet (S) has said, it does break the backbone of Satan. But there is a condition that your charity should be acceptable to Allah (S.w.T.). I have seen Satan’s mother It is narrated in Anwār Jazairi that once during an acute famine a preacher was speaking from the pulpit in a mosque.

He said, “If someone wants to give sadaqa, seventy satans cling to his hand and try to prevent him from doing the good turn.” One mu’min who was seated very near the foot of the pulpit told to his friends with surprise, “What has Satan to do with sadaqa? I have some wheat at home. I shall go home just now and bring it to the mosque to give away in charity. I shall see how the satans prevent me from doing it!” The man got up and went home.

On reaching home, when his wife became aware of his intention, she shouted at him, “In these days of acute famine you have no care of your wife and children! Perhaps the famine conditions might prolong and we might all die of starvation because of shortage of wheat.” Therefore, getting engulfed with doubts the mu’min returned to the mosque empty handed. The friends asked him, “What has happened. You have returned from home without the wheat? Alas!