Part 6 Jinn The Shaytaan and the Jinn Definition of the Shaytaan The Shaytaan- Satan - of whom Allaah speaks a great deal in the Quraan is from the realm of the jinn. In the beginning he used to worship Allaah, and he dwelt in heaven with the Angels and entered paradise, then he disobeyed his Lord when He commanded him to prostrate to Adam, out of arrogance and pride. So Allaah cast him out from His Mercy. In Arabic the word Shaytaan is applied to every insolent and rebellious one, and the word is applied to this creature because of his insolence toward an rebellion against his Lord. He is also described as Taaghoot, as in the ayah: { Those who believe, fight in the cause of Allaah, and those who disbelieve, fight in the cause of Taghoot [Satan]. So fight you against the friends of Shaytaan [Satan]; ever feeble indeed is the plot of shaytaan [Satan].} - Quraan 4:76 The word Taaghoot covers a wide range of meanings: It means anything worshipped other than the Real God ( Allaah ), but the one who does not accept = to be worshipped, will not be considered as a Taaghoot: i.e. all the false dieties. It may be Satan, devils, idols, stones, sun, stars, Angels, human beings, who were falsely worshipped and taken as Taaghoot. Likewise saints, graves, rulers and leaders are falsely worshipped and wrongly followed. This name- Shaytaan- is known to most of the nations on earth in more or less the same form, as Al-Aqqaad noted in his book Iblees. He is called Taaghoot because he transgressed his limits, rebelled against his Lord and set himself up as a God to be worshipped. This creature has despaired of the Mercy of Allaah, hence Allaah called him Iblees. Balas in arabic means the one who has nothing good in him. Ablasa in arabic means to be filled with despair and confusion. Anyone who studies what is said in the Quraan and Hadith about the Shaytaan will know that he is a creature who can think, understand and move, etc. He is not as some of those who have no knowledge say, The spirit of evil represented by the animalistic desires of man which divert him - if they take over his heart- from the highest spiritual values.
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