The Jinn proceeded, 'The Prophet (ﷺ) stated, 'The end of this nation, would come through calumnies and plague. These are the pierces from the enemy of the humans of the jinn. And whoever dies due to this infliction has attained martyrdom.' Perhaps, what occurred to the Prophet Job, alayhissalam, was from the jinn, Allah stated,
وَاذْكُرْ عَبْدَنَآ اَيُّوْبَۘ اِذْ نَادٰى رَبَّهٗٓ اَنِّيْ مَسَّنِيَ الشَّيْطٰنُ بِنُصْبٍ وَّعَذَابٍۗ
'And remember Our servant Job, when he called to his Lord, 'Indeed, Satan has touched me with hardship and torment.' [QS. Sad (39):41]
Allah warns humans about Satan's misguidance and his desire to mislead people. O human, satan is an enemy for you, so treat him as an enemy. Whoever chooses Satan for an ally instead of Allah, is verily a loser and his loss is manifest. The enmity from Satan, will not change or vanish. It is because Satan sees the father of the humans, Adam, as the cause for his being expelled from paradise and the reason behind Allah's curse upon Satan. There is no doubt that he will seek revenge from Adam and his offspring.
Satan has one long term goal. This is his ultimate ambition. This goal is to see humans thrown into the hellfire and prevented from entering paradise. Aside from the long term goals, he has many short-term goals including, to get the slave involved in disbelief and idolatry. If he is not able to lead the slave to idolatry or disbelief, Satan does not despair. He then becomes pleased with things that are less than that, such as sins and disobedience to Allah. He also plants enmity and hatred in their ranks. Any action that is loved by Allah is hated by Satan and every act of disobedience that is hated by the Merciful is loved by Satan. If it is not for him to call people to disbelief, idolatry and evil deeds. He also tries to block the way to any good deed. There is no ath of goodness that man may follow except that he sits there, lurking and turn mankind away. If Satan is not able to block the way to acts of obedience, then he will do his best to ruin the act of obedience or worship by making it such that the person will not receive reward for the action. Every disobedience to the Merciful is obedience to Satan. Everything that is worshipped instead of Allah, be it statues, idols, sun, the moon, one's desires, another human, some ideology or whatever, is actually the worship of Satan. This is true whether the person is pleased with that fact or denies it, because it was Satan that ordered and sought that action. Satan orders and encourages every evil and strives his best for evil; he tries to forbid every good and, in fact, he fears every good deed. He wants the person to do the former and to leave the latter.
Besides from misleading mankind by disbelief and sins, there are also his another goal, to physically and psychologically harm the Muslim, among others, attacking the Prophet (ﷺ); to bring dreams to the human while he is sleeping, to molest and distress him; Satan may use animals that he spurs on for burning down houses. That's why, when you are going to sleep at night, extinguish your lamps; Satan fights and plays with the human at the time of death, so seek refuge in Allah from that; Satan harms the child at the time of its birth; Satan brings various diseases; Satan shares in the food, drink and lodging of the humans, this occurs if the human contradicts the guidance of Allah or if he is unmindful of Him; Satan enters the human body and possessed by the satan who onters them. The possessed person speaks a language that he himself does not understand. And his body, may be struck with a ferocious beating, such that it would leave a great mark on a camel. The possessed person does not perceive the strike nor does he perceive the words that he is speaking. The possessed may others heavier than him. And those who swallow usury, cannot rise up save as he arises whom the devil has prostrated by his touch.
Iblees is the one who lays out the strategy of the battle against humans and is the leader. From his seat, he sends his troops and armies to different places for different purposes. He meets with his troops and reviews what they have accomplished. He praises those who created a great deal of mischief and misguidance among the people. From the Prophet (ﷺ), we know that Iblees sets his throne on the water. From there, he sends out his troops to tempt mankind. The one whom he regards as closest to him is the one who causes the greatest temptation. One of them returns to him and says, 'I stayed with so and so, and did not leave him until he did such and such,' and he is told, 'You have done nothing.' Then one comes and reports, did not leave him until he separated from his wife.' Iblees then brings him near to him and says, 'How fine you are.'
Satan has two types of soldiers: one from among jinn and one from among humans. Satan is man's first enemy who rushes to take him to his eternal destruction. Although that is the case, most humans take him as their friend and ally. They follow in his footsteps. They are pleased with his thoughts. It shows how senseless the human, who has been bestowed a mind, is that he takes his most devoted enemy as his loyal ally.
Many humans follow and support Satan. He is deceiving them and leading them to what will end in their ultimate destruction and ruin. He will, in the end, abandon them and forsake them. He even laughs at them. Furthermore, he will point them out and even expose them. He orders them to steal, kill, commit adultery, and so on, and then he discloses their acts to others and disgraces them.
Humans are of two groups: allies and servants of Allah, the Most Merciful, and allies of Satan. The patrons of Satan are all of the unbelievers, regardless of what group they belong to or what affiliation they may profess. Satan gets power over them to mislead the believers by way of doubts and skepticism. He also urges the unbelievers to fight against the believers. And he always tries to put the fear of his patrons into the believers. Satan does not come to the human and say, 'Leave this good deed and do this evil deed in order to make your life in this world and he next a miserable one.' If he behaved in that manner no one would follow him. Instead, he uses many ways to deceive the slaves of Allah, including : Making evil look good, he makes the false appear in the form of truth. And he makes what is true appear like falsehood. He will always try to make humans like falsehood and dislike truth until the human is pushed to doing evil deeds and turning away from the truth; He is also Radical; He hinders the slave from acting by means of procrastination and laziness; Satan makes false promises to humans and gives them sweet dreams in order to mislead them; Satan calls man to disobedience of Allah and he alleges that he is giving him sincere advice and he only desires the best for him; He uses a step-by-step approach to misguide mankind; The slave of Allah is made to forget what is good and best for him; He makes the believers fear his supporters; He gets to the person through what the person loves or desires; He casts doubts in the person's mind; and so on.
Satan is able to reach the thought and the heart of the human. He does it in such a way that the human does not perceive it or recognize it. He has been helped, in this manner, by the nature in which he has been created. This is the thing known as the 'whisper' or thought that enters a humans mind. Sometimes, Satan does not approach humans by way of whispering into his soul. Instead, he appears to them in the shape of a human; his voice can be heard but his body cannot be seen. Or he might take on a strange shape. Sometimes the jinn appear in front of humans and inform them that they are jinn. Sometimes they falsely claim to be angels. Sometimes they call themselves 'invisible men' while at other times, they claim to be from the world of the spirits.
All of these things have been related from people throughout the ages. Sometimes, the devils speak directly to a person while at other times they speak through a medium or using the tongue of that person for a while. Sometimes, they may respond to humans in writing.
They can do much more than that. They have been known to carry humans through the wind and take them from place to place. Or they may bring the person something he desires. But this is only done with the evildoers who do not believe in Allah as the Rabb of the Heavens and the Earth or those people who do sinful acts. Many times, such people, appear like the most pious of people, but in reality, they are the most misguided and corrupt people. Many of the past and present, have related such incidents, and they cannot be denied, since the reporting of such occurrences has been widespread and continuous.
Those who believe that they have been granted special powers and consider themselves special devotees of Allah, are actually just being served by the devils. There is no doubt that they get close to the devils, by way of what they love of disbelief and idolatry. Many of those people, write the Word of Allah in impure substances and they invert the letters of the Quran, either the words of surah al-Fatiha, al-Ikhlas or other verses. And they write the Word of Allah in blood or other impure substances. And they write or make other statements that are pleasing to Satan. If they say or write what is pleasing to the devils, then the devils aid them in satisfying some of their desires, such as transforming water or transporting them in the air to some places. Or they might steal wealth from other treacherous people, who do not mention Allah's name over it and bring it to some of their selected friends, and so on.
The human must always have some balance that can be used to distinguish between the devotees of the Merciful and the devotees of Satan and between the righteous and the impious. Otherwise, he will himself stray. That standard is the book of Allah and the sunnah of the Prophet (ﷺ). If a person adheres to them, it is fine and good. If not, then he is not upon anything sound or praiseworthy, even if we see him resurrecting the dead or performing alchemy.
It is spread among many people that the jinn know the unseen. And the jinn do their best to spread this wrong notion among humans. But Allah has shown the falsity of their claim in the story of the Prophet Solomon. After his death, his body stayed erect, leaning on a staff, and the jinn continued to work. They were not aware that he had died until some crawling creatures ate away the staff he was resting on. Then Solomon fell, and it was made clear to the people, that the jinn are liars when they claim to know the unseen.
By that we know, one of the greatest mistakes that the masses make, when they believe that some people, like fortune tellers and soothsayers, know the unseen. We see them, going to them and asking them about things that were stolen, or crimes that were committed. And they ask them about things that have not happened yet to themselves and their children. Both the questioner and the questioned will be thwarted. The knowledge of the unseen rests only with Allah. Allah does not disclose any of it, except to whom He chooses of his righteous servants. Allah is the Knower of the Unseen, and He reveals unto none His secret, save unto every messenger who He has chosen, and then He makes a guard to go before him and a guard behind him that He may know that they have indeed conveyed the messages of their Lord. He surrounds all their doings, and He keeps count of all things.
To believe that a certain person has the knowledge of the unseen is a sinful and wrong belief that goes against the authentic Islamic belief that only Allah has the knowledge of the unseen. To go to some people to ask for a verdict that involves the unseen is a very great sin. To believe in what they say is disbelief.
Astrologers are the people who use the stars or the celestial bodies to predict the affairs of the earth. This is a practice that is prohibited by the Book of Allah and the sunnah. In fact, all of the messengers of Allah have prohibited it. Some people allege that the astrologers, soothsayers, fortune tellers and others, are sometimes truthful. Their being truthful in many situations is just a form deception of mankind. As they usually make a general statement that can be interpreted in numerous ways. When the event occurs, they interpret their statement in the way that would make it seem correct. Other times when they are correct, it is the result of acumen and a keen eye. Other times, it comes from the jinn who meet them and give them some news they stole from the heavens. Our beloved Prophet (ﷺ) was asked about diviners. He (ﷺ) said, 'They have nothing.' They said, 'But sometimes they give some words that turn out to be true.' He (ﷺ) answered, 'Those words of truth are from what the jinn stole. He says them into the ears of his patron and mixes with it one hundred lies.'
If the information they give that is correct is related to something similar to the name of a thief or knowing the name of a person and his family members, before the first meeting with him, this could all be done through some trickery. This could be done by having an assistant who gets information from the people or is able to listen to their discussions before the time of the meeting. Or it could be from the acts of the devils as devils knowing about things that happenned in the past, is not something strange or marvelous.
Many times we hear about the sightings of unidentified flying objects. Perhaps a week cannot go by, without hearing of one person or a group of people, who have reported a sighting. They are seen either flying through the skies or stationed for a time on earth. Some people have reported a creation different from that of humans emerging from the vehicles. Some have even claimed that the creatures, have asked them to join them on the vessels, and so on. All of this, are nothing but the jinn use, in their schemes, whatever happens to be the mode of the day. During this time, scientific progress is the fad of the day. Therefore the jinn mislead them by the use of this medium that interests them. Today people are beginning to explore space and the possibility of life in outer space. Hence, the jinn are appearing in the form of and space creatures in order to mislead and deceive mankind.'
The fisherman asked, 'Then what is the weapon of the believers in their war against satan?'
