SATAN'S TECHNIQUE OF REVERSE LOGIC

Satan uses a very foul and cunning technique; he attempts to influence people by using “reverse logic.” He seeks to use that method to turn people away from the communication of religious moral values, the struggle against atheism and the spread of moral virtue. In doing this, satan approaches people who listen to him with very reasonable-seeming justifications. Those who go along with this cunning technique of satan’s have a great number of pretexts, excuses in other words, for not worshiping, for not communicating the religion, for not undertaking difficulties for Allah’s (God’s) sake, for not living for His approval and for not striving against heretical beliefs. Satan’s technique is so sly, so base and so deceptive that people who harbor doubts about striving for Allah’s sake have not a moment’s hesitation when it comes to putting these excuses to use. Some portray themselves as genuine Muslims, but, consciously or otherwise, actually adopt satan’s reverse logic. They regard themselves as preferential, and instead of striving for Allah’s sake they devote themselves to maintaining their prestige in other people’s eyes. They are hesitant when it comes to obeying Allah’s commands, and try to pull those people who endeavor in this path into the same trap they have fallen into themselves. In that way, they ease their consciences and seek to convince themselves they are on the right path. But their own lower selves bear witness that their consciences are uneasy because they do not live for Allah’s approval.