عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ رضي اللَّه عنهمَا، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ : «إِنَّ إِبْلِيسَ يَضَعُ عَرْشَهُ عَلَى الْمَاءِ، ثُمَّ يَبْعَثُ سَرَايَاهُ، فَأَدْنَاهُمْ مِنْهُ مَنْزِلَةً أَعْظَمُهُمْ فِتْنَةً، يَجِيءُ أَحَدُهُمْ فَيَقُولُ: فَعَلْتُ كَذَا وَكَذَا، فَيَقُولُ: مَا صَنَعْتَ شَيْئًا، قَالَ: ثُمَّ يَجِيءُ أَحَدُهُمْ فَيَقُولُ: مَا تَرَكْتُهُ حَتَّى فَرَّقْتُ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ امْرَأَتِهِ، قَالَ: فَيُدْنِيهِ مِنْهُ وَيَقُولُ: نِعْمَ أَنْتَ»
Jābir ibn ꜤAbdullāh narrated, saying: God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said:
1. Iblīs takes his throne on the sea. He sends his troops to lead people astray. The best of them in his eyes is the one who leads farthest astray. Some one of them comes and says I have done this and that. He [i.e. Satan] says: ‘You have done very little’. 2. Then another one comes and says: ‘I did not leave this man until I caused a schism between him and his wife’. He brings him close to himself and says: ‘Splendid you are’.
Related by Muslim, 2813.
said:
[Iblīs] ‘Since you let me fall in error, I shall indeed lurk in ambush for them all along Your straight path, (16) and I shall most certainly fall upon them from the front and from the rear, and from their right and from their left; and You will find most of them ungrateful’. (17) [God] said: ‘Get out of here, despised, disgraced. As for those of them that follow you, I shall fill Hell with you all’.
(7: 16-18)
People! God’s promise is true indeed. So do not let the life of the present world delude you, and do not let deceptive thoughts about God delude you. (5) Satan is your enemy, so treat him as an enemy. He only calls on his followers so that they will be among those destined for the blazing Fire.
(35: 5-6)
