We have known before that Shaitan will try to make us hopeless and misguided away from our way to Allah. Allah Almighty says about Shaitan words “Satan said, “Because You have put me in error, I will surely sit in wait for them on Your straight path.” Quran 7:16
How does he do that?
The answer is “Then I will come to them from right in front of their hands and from behind them and on their right and on their left, and You will not find most of them grateful [to You].” 7:17
How do these attacks work ?!
Shaitan is invisible and we don’t see him. But he whispers, “Who whispers [evil] into the chests of mankind” 114:5. This Arabic word “chests” is used also for emotions. So it’s refer to emotions like anger, greed, fear, love, happiness, etc. These are normal emotions. They are part of who we are. And Naturally we attract to the beautiful things. But Shaitan uses these feelings and manipulate them. He’ll use your anger to mess you up. He’ll use your sadness to mess you up.
What is Shitan goal?
He wants to take that feeling out of balance, to make you do anything that you can get it. To make you don’t care about the consequences of sins. He excites your feeling and says why do you have to wait! why can’t you have what you want right now! He comes at you right in front of you and you can’t see anything else but what you desire. And you don’t think what damage it will do to yourself or the others… you’re just completely led on by him! That is actually one of the great attacks of Shaitan from the front.
The other meaning for “I will attack them from the front of their hands” is about the future. To block your eyes from seeing what is ahead of us which at the end will be meeting with Allah. Whether you like it or not. Whether you want to accept that or not. We’re all heading that way with every breath that we take. And that meeting is unavoidable. Shaitan doesn’t want you to see that. To see that with every passing day we are getting closer to meet Allah and then tomorrow we’re even closer. All he wants from you is to think that future isn’t meeting with Allah but meeting your friends! But meeting with some holidays, having good times. He wants you to think about the future with what’s right in front of you not the long long term. Thinking about future’s education, home ownership, gaining some skills, raising up your children in a good manner, building up business and all of that stuff are long term thinking and these are good things. But actually Allah wants you to have even longer term thinking.
Shaitan doesn’t even blind your eyes from the future of meeting Allah but also he will make you pessimistic about the future …
-Nothing is going to work out
-It’s going to be bad
-It’s always going to fail
And you become so negative and your negativity becomes infectious. We have to have hope in Allah and ask him. But you cut that off by pessimism.
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