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Allah says in the Qur'an, Iblees and his ilk see you the way you cannot see "him."
Says the Qur'an:
Min Hayithu Laa Tarawunahoo.
Rasulullah, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, says: Shaitan races through your veins like blood.
Says the Hadith:
Majrad Dam!
As a result, part of the challenge of being a Muslim is to be able to recognize Iblees and his Ilk -- Shaitan -- in all their disguises.
The Qur'an and Hadeeth both make it clear that Shayateen -- plural for Shaitan -- come in the form Jinn as well as humans.
So, there are two kinds of Shayaateen: Jinn and Ins.
Ins is human beings whom God created with clay. Jinn is a creature God made with fire.
Iblees, the Shaitan, was a Jinn, says the Qur'an. And he chose to disobey God's command.
This is how the Qur'an puts it:
Kaana Minal Jinni!
Fa-Fasaqa An Amri Rabbihi!
And the job of the Believers -- Mu'mins, Muslims -- everywhere is to be able to identify both kinds of Shayaateen in their midst in a timely manner and deal with them both effectively.
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Generally speaking, Shaitan -- the Devil -- seems to be a happy-go-lucky kind of a guy. But there seems to be one thing that bothers him more than all the other things in this world.
And that is the Qur'an.
Often, Shaitan's entire mission on earth seems to revolve around keeping the children of Adam -- human beings -- from getting hold of a copy of the Qur'an.
And from reading the Qur'an and understanding it.
While Shaitan seems to have no dearth of followers in this world, ready to do his bidding whenever and wherever, Shaitan's constant worry seems to be the Qur'an.
Shaitan's obsession seems to be:
How to stop the Qur'an from falling into the hands of human beings.
Qur'an in the form of simple, understandable translation in their own language.
And Qur'an in the form of any book or device that may help to make the Qur'an simple, easy, accessible and understandable to people.
Every day Shaitan can keep the Qur'an from breaking out, and falling into the hands of the people, in any form or fashion, and at any level, seems to be a day of victory for Shaitan.
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