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Islamic Concepts
The People of Paradise- Ep1
Mustafa Hosny

Ep 1
The Kingdom of Satan

The nearest and most beloved of you to me on the Day of Judgment are those with the best of
manners and the farthest and most hated of you to me are those with the worst of manners.
Prophet Muhammad (SAWS[1])

Several factors happen to act as obstacles to becoming among the people of paradise, the biggest of
which is Satan. He has summoned to deviate humans from the path of righteousness by spreading his
people among them to follow his own laws. He declared a war against ethics that aims at changing
the instinct of ethics created by Allah[2] among humans, thus establishing immorality as the ruling
factor in societies. As a result, people with good ethics would feel different and estranged, so their
ethics start to falter, the thing that allows their good natures to, eventually, change.

All this is applied through what the Quran described as the party of Satan which he founded for two
reasons
1. A methodology can not survive without students.
2. Satan is aware of how hard it is to fully influence someone if they are not from your kind.
Therefore, he took followers from among humans through which he could achieve full influence over
their fellow humans.
In order to recruit someone into his party, he does 3 things:
1. Brings distractions and temptations that turn one away from Allah because he knows that, with
Allah, youre the strongest and, without Him, youre the weakest.
2. Makes one accept the gradual decline towards immorality. Its a fact that bad ethics do not
occur all of a sudden; one changes from good to bad gradually (just as changing from being bad and
back to being good happens gradually). This way, one doesnt feel themselves changing. Allah says, in
the Quran, what can be translated as: O you who have believed, do not follow the footsteps
of Satan. And whoever follows the footsteps of Satan - indeed, he enjoins immorality and
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wrongdoing (TMQ[3], 24:21).

3. Convinces one that being bad and away from the path of righteousness is the way to achieve
happiness. He would fill your head with thoughts of how hard, and even useless, it is to be good when
everyone around is doing the wrong and using illegal means to achieve what they want. As a result,
one becomes convinced that cheating, immorality and other Satanic deeds are the only means to
achieve ones desires.
Once one falls victim to this, he accepts the gradual adoption of their personality to immorality. They
become convinced that evil deeds increase chances in life while staying on the path of righteousness
gives you zero chances. This is when one has officially joined the Party of Satan.
Tomorrows episode will tackle the types of people which Satan has to deal with in order to make them
join his party and prevent them from becoming from among the people of paradise.

[1] Salla Allah alayhe Wa Salam [All Prayers and Blessings of Allah be upon him]
[2] The word Allah is the Arabic term for God. Although the use of the word "Allah" is most often
associated with Islam, it is not used exclusively by Muslims; Arab Christians and Arabic-speaking Jews
also use it to refer to the One God. The Arabic word expresses the unique characteristics of the One
God more precisely than the English term. Whereas the word "Allah" has no plural form in Arabic, the
English form does, and the word 'Allah' in Arabic has no connotation of gender. Allah is the God
worshipped by all Prophets, from Adam to Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad.
[3] Translation of the Meaning of the Qur'an. This translation is for the realized meaning, so far,of the
stated (Surah:Ayah)of the Qur'an. Reading the translated meaning of the Qur'an can never replace
reading it in Arabic, the language in which it was revealed.

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