HOW THE DEVIL SYAITAN DECEIVE MEN AND HOW MEN CAN PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM THE DEVIL SYAITAN

Syaitan deceive Muslims into the understanding that the counting of the number of beads in which a person remembers Allah is an act of zikir. Counting beads is only the mean to help Muslims to remember Allah but it is not what it really means by the zikir mention in the Quran and Hadis. Syaitan do not make them to understand that to obey the orders of Allah which Allah loves most to be practiced at that particular time is actually the meaning of zikir. Some of those Muslims, who follow the Tarikat group have the understanding that they are not required to perform solat any longer because they are constantly in zikir. They have come to this understanding because according to them, solat is ordered by Allah in order for men to remember Allah and since they are constantly in the state of remembrance of Allah, they are in the opinion that they are not required to perform solat. In this way the syaitan deceive them from obeying the orders of Allah. In my opinion all the Muslims who participate with the activities of these Tarikat group are not gaining any increase in iman but they are gaining only an increase in pride or kibir. Syaitan can easily deceive the non-Muslims, Muslims who have no iman, Muslims who have weak iman but syaitan will never be able to deceive the Muslims who are believers.

Those who have become believers are protected by Allah from the devil syaitan. After doing any action Muslims who are believers will have the taufik from Allah to recite the Kalimah; I have no power to execute this action except with the permission of Allah and all praise is due to Allah. With this Kalimah, a person with the permission of Allah will be protected from having kibir or riak. Iman does not increase with solat or with zikir or with reading of the Quran or with charity or with studying in madrasah about Islam. With only ibadah or studying about Islam or memorizing the Quran and not doing the first order of Allah, instead of gaining iman a person may gains pride or kibir. When a person gains pride or kibir that person may become syaitan. The persons who have pride or kibir, in reality are gaining syirik with Allah in their heart because they have associated Allah with their own selves. Whoever has syirik with Allah, Allah will make syaitan to become their friends or advisers who will try to drive them away from the correct path. Many of those who often go to the mosques for five times daily solat with congregation are not gaining any increase of their iman but they are gaining an increase of pride or kibir. When a person gains pride or kibir, that person will not have good manners or good behaviours towards other Muslims and the non-Muslims. What is the evidence to show that those Muslims who often pray in congregation in the mosques have kibir and riak? Whenever we visited the houses of those who often go to the mosque to perform prayers with congregation, many of them are behaving very rude towards their visitors. When anyone of lower standard than them comes to their houses in order to remind them about Allah, many of them refuse to listen to the talks of reminding them about Allah and sometime they even drive those peoples who want to remind them about Allah away from their homes.

Many Muslims were deceived by Iblis and syaitan into the belief that their children will become good Muslims if they send their children to study Islam or to memorize Quran in madrasah and become ustaz and ustazah. Many Muslims have the belief that a person who has knowledge about the Quran will become a good Muslim. With this believe, many Muslims parents sent their children even at a very young age to madrasah in order for their children to memorize the Quran and to become the hafiz or the hafizah of Quran. Many Muslims believe that anyone with the knowledge of Quran and Hadis or anyone who is able to memorize the Quran will have strong iman and with strong iman they will have good actions or amals and with the good iman and good actions they will certainly enter paradise. Many Muslims parents believe that when their children become hafiz and hafizah, their children in the hereafter will be able to give syafaat to them. With this belief and thinking many parents particularly from among Jemaah Tabligh sent almost all of their children to study in madrasah in order to make their children to become hafiz and hafizah of Quran. All these parents have been deceived by Iblis and syaitan who tell to them that their children will have strong iman and good amal by studying Quran and Hadis or memorizing the Quran and Hadis in the madrasah. Studying or memorizing Quran without becoming believers will only make the persons to become ignorant Muslims scholars or ignorant Hafiz and Hafizah. Our iman will not become strong by studying Quran and Hadis or by memorizing Quran and Hadis. Our iman and the iman of our children will only become strong when we and our children are doing the work which fulfilling the right of the Great Kalimah which is the work of inviting the whole mankind to good and forbidding the whole mankind from evils.

When the students of the madrasah do not become believers, they are easily deceived by Iblis and syaitan. Instead of using the Quran and the Hadis to calls mankind to good and to prevent mankind from evils, the graduates of the madrasah will use the knowledge of the Quran and Hadis in order to earn a living. How to earn a living out of the Quran and Hadis? Iblis and syaitan will tell to the ustaz and the hafiz of Quran who have graduated from the Madrasah to establish more Islamic schools or madrasah for the Muslim children. With the establishment of more madrasah and more Islamic schools for Muslims children in the society, there will be more employment opportunities for all the ustaz and Hafiz of Quran. By teaching in the various madrasah and Islamic schools and also teaching in the various mosques in the localities, ustaz and hafiz of Quran are earning their living by using their knowledge of the Quran and Hadis which they have learned from the madrasah. Instead of using their knowledge of the Quran and Hadis to call mankind to Allah, in the name of teaching of Islam and the Quran in the madrasah many ustaz and hafiz are earning their living from their knowledge of the Quran and Hadis.

Many ustaz and Hafiz are opening many madrasah and all these madrasah will produce more ustaz and Hafiz of Quran and each of the ustaz and the Hafiz of Quran produce by the madrasah will build more madrasah and Islamic schools and in this way we will have thousands of madrasah and Islamic schools in the country. Many Muslims particularly in Jemaah Tabligh regard this as an achievement, because according to them, prior to the coming of the work of Jemaah Tabligh in Malaysia there are very few madrasah and Islamic schools in Malaysia. When the work of Jemaah Tabligh comes to Malaysia there are mushrooming of madrasah in Malaysia. In my opinion, the mushrooming of madrasah in Malaysia is not a sign of achievement because we may have thousands of madrasah and Islamic schools like in Indonesia and we may have thousands of ustaz and hafiz of Quran but we will not have even a single pious person in the society. A pious person in a society is not produced by madrasah and Islamic schools but a pious person like companions were produced by the work of Prophet Muhammad saw and the work of Prophet Muhammad saw is the work of inviting mankind to good and preventing mankind from evils.

Iblis will deceive Muslims parents to send their children to madrasah and Islamic schools and Iblis gives promise to the Muslim parents that their children will become pious and good Muslims when their children are studying in madrasah and Islamic schools. It is not true that our children will become good and pious Muslims when they study in madrasah and Islamic schools. Pious and good Muslims are not produced from madrasah or from Islamic schools but pious and good Muslims are produced from the work of Prophet Muhammad saw. The companions of the Prophet Muhammad saw have never attended any madrasah or Islamic schools but they are good and pious Muslims. How do the companions of Prophet Muhammad saw become pious and good Muslims when they have never attended any madrasah or any Islamic schools? The companions of the Prophet Muhammad saw have become pious and good Muslims because they do the work of Prophet Muhammad saw under the guidance of Allah and Prophet Muhammad saw. What is the work of Prophet Muhammad saw? The work of Prophet Muhammad saw is to call peoples to Allah and to call peoples to Allah means is to invite mankind to good and to forbid mankind from evils. With more madrasah we are producing only more ahli kitab and not more ulama or more alim. Ulama or alim are Muslims who have become believers. Ulama and alims are not produced by madrasah or Islamic schools but ulama and alims are produced by the work of Prophet Muhammad saw. Muslims who are ahli Kitab are Muslims who are not believers and who do not have the understanding of the Quran and Hadis. Ahli kitab are only good in reading the Quran and Hadis from the Kitab but but they are not given by Allah the understanding of the Quran and Hadis as written in the Kitab.

There are many Muslims who always go to the mosques to perform solat with congregation. Many Muslims believe that the first order of Allah after reciting the Great Kalimah is to perform the five times daily prayer. Many Muslims do not know that after they have recited the Great Kalimah they have to do the work which fulfilling the right of the Great Kalimah which is the work to invite mankind to good and to prevent mankind from evils. It is not written in any of the Islamic books which are available to all the Muslims in this world that after a person recites the Great Kalimah that person needs to do the work which fulfilling the right of the Great Kalimah. In all the Islamic books available to all the Muslims in the whole world since more than one thousand years ago, it is written that the first pillar of Islam is only to recite the Great Kalimah. The first Islamic book is probably written only after a few hundred years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad saw. All the other books which are written after the first book was written only follow what was written in the first book about the five pillars of Islam. According to all the Islamic books available to all the Muslims since more than one thousand years ago, other than to recite the Great Kalimah, there is no other order associate with the recitation of the Great Kalimah. What was written in all the Islamic books available to the Muslims since more than one thousand years ago is the first order of Allah after reciting the Great Kalimah is to perform the five times daily prayers. Iblis and syaitan have deceived the Muslims in the whole world since more than one thousand years ago that the first order of Allah is to perform the five times daily prayers and not to do the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils.

Many Muslims understand that the first order of Allah after reciting the Great Kalimah is to perform the five times daily prayers and not to do the work of inviting the whole mankind to good and forbidding the whole mankind from evils. Since the early days of Islam, Iblis and syaitan have persuaded the Muslims not to do the work which fulfiling the right of the Great Kalimah. Initially Iblis and syaitan will corrupt the Muslims with the desire to have the wealth of this world and not to have Allah. When Iblis and syaitan have corrupted the Muslims with the love of the material wealth, the next action which Iblis and syaitan will take is to prevent Muslims from doing the work which fulfilling the right of the Great Kalimah which is the work of inviting mankind to good and preventing mankind from evils. Nowadays when Muslims are able to perform the five times daily prayers with congregation everyone will certainly regard that Muslims to be a very good Muslim. Nowadays there are very few Muslims who are able to perform the five times daily prayers and what more to be able to perform the five times daily prayers with congregation.

The five times daily prayers of Muslims supposed to prevent Muslims from doing evil deeds but unfortunately many of those who are praying the five times daily prayers even with congregation are not being prevented by their prayers from committing evil deeds. Why this happen? This happen because the prayers of many Muslims are devoid of iman or sincerity. Why Muslims do not have iman or sincerity? Because they are not doing the work of inviting the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah and they are not doing the work of reminding the Muslims about the Great Kalimah and to invite Muslims to do the work which fulfilling the right of the Great Kalimah. When Muslims are not doing the work which fulfilling the right of the Great Kalimah or the work of inviting mankind to good and preventing mankind from evils, their iman will not increase. When their iman does not increase they do not become believers and when they are not believers, they do not have sincerity. When Muslims are performing their five times daily prayers even with congregation but without sincerity, their iman will not increase with the prayers and their prayers will not be accepted by Allah and their prayers will not be able to prevent them from doing evil deeds.

Instead of obtaining more iman with their prayers Muslims with their prayers will obtain more riak or kibir. Pride or kibir is the brother of syirik. Why do they obtain more riak and kibir with their prayers? Iblis and syaitan will inject into the hearts of those Muslims who often went the mosques to perform prayers with congregation that they are better Muslims than those Muslims who do not went to the mosques to perform their prayers with congregation. Syaitan make them to believe that they are able to go to the mosques because they are good and pious Muslims. Muslims who do not have the Great Kalimah inside their heart will be easily deceive by the syaitan into the belief that they are able to go to the mosque because they are good and pious Muslims. Syaitan will make those Muslims who do not have the Great Kalimah inside their heart to forget that the one who makes them to be able to come to the mosques for prayers is only Allah. A person who has syirik or pride or kibir will not have good behaviours. According to my experience of visiting many Muslims in my locality I find those Muslims who often went to the mosques for five times daily prayers are more proud and rude than those Muslims who do not went to the mosques for prayers.

Prof Dr Nasoha Saabin
January 2013
Integrative Holistic Wellness Centre