In the second, Satan rejoices because he made him break God’s covenant after its covenant, and the knower has no knowledge of that. If he had known from the beginning that this was from Satan, he would have known how to turn it back and how to take it, just as Jesus, peace be upon him, did. And every able-bodied member of God’s family, among the heirs of the prophets, sees it as good, but it is satanic thoughts. Likewise, he came to the hypocrite from the People of the Book and said to him: Why did you know that your Prophet had given good tidings to this man, when you knew that he and prophecy unite them? So tell him that you are the Messenger of God according to the saying of your Prophet, not according to his saying, and there is no difference between them. Then the hypocrite says at that point that you are the Messenger of God, so God denied them. So God Almighty said, “When the hypocrites come to you, they say, ‘We bear witness.’” Indeed, you are the Messenger of God according to what Satan decided them to say, so God said, “And God knows that you are His Messenger, and God bears witness that the hypocrites are liars in that they said that because of your saying, not in their saying that you are the Messenger of God, and if he wanted that, it would be a denial of his message, may God bless him and grant him peace

[ The scale by which the devilish mind is known from others ]

I have informed you of Satan’s entrances into the souls of the world so that you may warn him and ask God to give you a sign by which you will know him, and He has given you God, in common, is the balance of the Sharia, and He distinguished for you between His obligations and mandates, the permissible, the forbidden, and the objectionable, and He stipulated that in His Book and on the tongue of His Messenger. So, if a thought of something forbidden or hateful comes to you, you know that it is from Satan without a doubt, and if a thought comes to you about what is permissible, then you know that it is from the soul without a doubt, so Satan risks the forbidden. [Page 284 of the Cairo edition]

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