Verily Satan is disobedient unto the Beneficent (Allah).

Verily Satan is disobedient unto the Beneficent (Allah)." The objective meaning of "Serve not Satan" is the same as obeying and following Satan which causes man to become its servant and slave. Of course, it is evident that the purpose of service, here, is not a service in the sense of prostration, prayer, and fasting performed for Satan, but it is in the sense of obeying and following the command of Satan which itself is counted a kind of service.

The meaning of 'worship, or service' is so vast that it encompasses even the listening to the sayings of a person with the intention of acting accordingly, and also putting the rule of a person to order, is counted a kind of worshipping him. It has been narrated from the Prophet of Islam (p.b.u.h.) who said: "He who listens to a speaker (willingly), he has worshipped him.

Then, if the speaker speaks from the side of Allah, the one has worshipped Allah, and if the speaker speaks from the side of Iblis, the one has worshipped Iblis."(1) However, Abraham wants to teach this fact to his father (uncle) that no one can live without having a path, a policy. It may be either the path of Allah and the straight way, or the path of Satan, the disobedient, the astray.

In this course, man should think correctly, take a decision for himself, and, far from bigotries and blindly followings, choose his good and benefit. 1- Safinat-ul-Bihar, vol. 2, p. 115 Previous…