exposing-shaytan-satan

undone; and when one performs ablution, the second knot is
undone, and when one prays the third knot is undone and one gets
up energetic with a good heart in the morning; otherwise one gets up
lazy and with a mischievous heart.” [Saheeh al-Bukharee (21/243)]
Narrated Abu Hurayrah t that the Prophet r said,
“If anyone of you rouses from sleep
and performs the ablution,
he should wash his nose by putting water in it
and then blowing it out thrice,
because the Shaytan has stayed
in the upper part of his nose all the night.”
[Saheeh al-Bukharee]
Ibn Jawzi (rahimahullah) explains how Shaytan makes one
procrastinate and how one can put off his whispers, “…he makes a
sinner put off repenting and he keeps him indulging in his desires,
telling him that one day he can repent… Perhaps, a faqeeh intends
to revise some topic but he says, ‘Rest for a while,’ or he sees a
worshiper waking up at night to pray, and he tells him, ‘You have
plenty of time.’ He keeps on making people lazy or delaying good
deeds, and he deceives them by telling them that they have plenty of
time and a lot of hope.
The one who wants to do good deeds should carry out his
actions with determination and resolve. Resolve means not wasting
time and not delaying things. He should forget about the idea of
having plenty of time because the one who has been warned should
not be assured. What you miss, you cannot make up for.
The reason for every shortcoming or inclination to evil
is the belief that there is plenty of time and a lot of hope,
because man keeps thinking of giving up evil and turning towards
good but delays. No doubt, whoever thinks that he has the whole
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