Don’t brag after giving charity And...

Don’t brag after giving charity And, despite everything, after one has given in charity, then Satan tries his level best to render the good deed null and void and thus the person doesn’t qualify to get reward for the good turn. To achieve this end, Satan would use all his skills to persuade the person to publicly brag about his charitable act. For example, Satan will put in the mind of the person to tell to the beneficiary of the charity, ‘It was I who came to your rescue in time of need!

None else would have helped you!’ Or Satan would make him belittle the receiver of the charity by saying, ‘Take this money now. But please don’t come to me for help again!” Therefore, Allah (S.w.T.) categorically says in the Holy Qur’an: لاَ تُبْطِلُواْ صَدَقَاتِكُم بِالْمَنِّ وَالأذَى Do not make your charity worthless by reproach and injury. (Sura al-Baqara, 2:264) In a nutshell, Satan is a mortal enemy of men and always schemes to make their good turns go in vain.

Therefore, they too have to render Satan’s mean efforts ineffective! Satan sets his sight on the hearts of people In all commentaries, and particularly in Majma al-Bayan, it is narrated from the Holy Prophet (S) that Satan always has an eye on the heart of a believer*.* When he finds the person busy in prayer, he flees. The Prophet (S) has said, ‘Satan has put a halter on the hearts of men. But when man remembers Allah (S.w.T.), Satan escapes from him.

When a person ignores remembrance of Allah (S.w.T.), Satan would swallow his heart.’ ‘Satan plans to swallow the heart of a believer*.* But when the believer remembers Allah (S.w.T.), Satan runs away from him.’ Satan chases a person till the end. This subject has received great importance in the Holy Book. Allah (S.w.T.) takes an oath from man that he will not become a follower of Satan.

In clear terms Allah (S.w.T.) has described Satan as the sworn enemy of man: أَلَمْ أَعْهَدْ إِلَيْكُمْ يَا بَنِي آدَمَ أَن لَّا تَعْبُدُوا الشَّيْطَانَ إِنَّهُ لَكُمْ عَدُوٌّ مُّبِينٌ Did I not charge you, O children of Adam! that you should not serve the Shaitan? Surely he is your open enemy. (Sura Ya Sin, 36:60) Allah (S.w.T.) has thus forbidden man not to befriend, Satan, his enemy since creation and warned from becoming his follower. What is Satan? Why he has been Created?

Two topics have always been the subjects of discussion- what is Satan and what is the purpose of his creation?

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