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5 TRAPS The Devil NEVER Wants You To Know!

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let's say you have a lifeboat that belongs to you and you have an enemy who wants to sink that boat so you need to fight them in order not to sink so in this fight in order to reach the coast don't you want to know your enemies tricks beforehand first is the trap of delaying in verse 56 of surah adariyah our rabb says and i did not create the jinn in mankind except to worship me yes man is sent to this world to get to know his lord and worship him but the devil wants you to forget that and does everything in his power to achieve that so do you think the devil is succeeding maybe he is most of the time he offers you all the glorious things in the world keeping you busy with them you're always

putting things off do you realize in fact the things that should come first you're putting off for example when you're about to start praying you just put it off and say whatever i can start later it's not time yet or when you say i need to start wearing the hijab i'm too late to put it on suddenly you think nah i'm still so young that's one of the devil's traps right realize that he's the one who doesn't want you to see the truth that he is the one that tells you to delay things then the solution will be much easier how say if allah has ordered it the rest is irrelevant who loves me more than i do wants me to do something not to postpone it but rather to apply it immediately and take a step

you can do that but the issue is constant business it can make you say i don't have time about your primary responsibilities yes when our main goal is to get to know allah pray fast and gain knowledge about faith we may spend our time on other things while saying i don't have time for these about only 10 minutes of prayer but we can take a half hour tea break so if we only deal with worldly affairs as if we were created only for this world wouldn't we be doing something illogical here the devil makes you feel like you have no time as one of his main traps to people abolution seems very difficult to do some brothers and sisters don't pray because getting ablution feels difficult i guess

there's a strategy for this and that is to always be in a state of with that way prayer starts to seem more accessible to the soul you'll just perform wudu as if you are washing your hands or face don't we have time for the one that gives us that time when we have 24 hours in a day praying doesn't even take up one hour in reality there is time but the devil is being the devil notice this trap open your eyes and don't disregard this big hole that will sink your ship and the third thing is not admitting that you have sins one of the devil's other important tricks is keeping people away from repentance by making them not acknowledge their sins if a man admits that he has wronged to his lord he

will regret and repent at this point by not allowing the man to admit his mistake the devil makes him believe that he is innocent and so he doesn't feel the need to repent but if we know what our mistake is and we admit it then the devil's great trap will be wasted don't forget brother the person who admits their mistake has already taken one of the biggest steps look at your life think about your actions that allah disapproves of and don't say things like what's wrong with this is this a sin too everybody does it times have changed turn to your and admit your mistake to him if you do rest assured you will be saved from another of the devil's great traps and another one is the trap of

despair the devil constantly tries to make people fall into despair yes the devil is trying to get you to give up even with your simplest mistake or maybe there are some big sins that you have committed and by reminding you of those constantly he whispers that you will never be forgiven that you don't deserve it however allah says in surah azumar verse 53 o my servants who have transgressed against themselves by sinning do not despair the mercy of allah indeed allah forgives all sins indeed it is he who is the forgiving the merciful while the devil has a trick to drive us to desperation on the other hand is this verse in the quran are we going to listen to the devil or the quran of course

we're going to listen to the quran you're still breathing aren't you brother or sister then you will repent in such a way that you will make the devil give up and you will fight in such a way that even if you keep falling you will get up again and get up in such a way that falling will make you stronger remember allah wants to see you persist indeed allah is the one will make you victorious perhaps one of the devil's most important traps is making people believe that they can never turn to allah when they have sinned the devil wants to keep you from your prayers by saying you're already imperfect you're a sinner how can you be in the presence of allah in this condition he doesn't want you to

repent and move on however if we turn to arab and ask for help through prayer then the devil's power will diminish we will escape sins more easily yes brothers and sisters you may have sins everyone makes mistakes but don't commit a greater sin by not praying don't allow the devil to take you down that path in verse 45 of surah al-ankabut says indeed prayer prohibits immorality and wrongdoing which means friends even if you are a sinner even if you have repented and repeated your sin more than once don't give up on turning to your through your prayers don't give a chance to the devil who wants to stop us from reuniting with our lord through prayer may allah make us realize the tricks of the

devil and protect us from it may allah bless you you