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Imam Ibnul-Qayyim writes, “There is nothing that Allah has<br />
enjoined except that Shaytan has ways of dealing with it, either by<br />
inclining (people) towards falling short and being negligent or being<br />
excessive and to exaggerate. He does not care which of these two<br />
mistakes a person makes. He may come to a person’s heart and if he<br />
finds that he is lazy, negligent and looking for concessions, then he<br />
goes along with that. He holds him back and stops him from doing<br />
things. He makes him lazy, indifferent and negligent, and<br />
encourages him to seek alternative interpretations and hope for<br />
forgiveness (from Allah for his shortcomings) etc., until a person may<br />
give up doing all things that have been enjoined.”<br />
One of the ways in which Shaytan does this is mentioned in<br />
the hadeeth recorded in Saheeh al-Bukharee from Abu Hurayrah t,<br />
who said that the Messenger of Allah r said, “Shaytan puts three<br />
knots at the back of the head of any of you if he is asleep. On every<br />
knot he reads and exhales the following words, ‘The night is long, so<br />
stay asleep.’ When one wakes up and remembers Allah, one knot is<br />
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