Author: Abdul Hai Lian
Satanism (part 30)
The Danger of Satanism to Religions, Individuals, and Society
Satanists, who are now in the process of transferring their symbols into Islamic societies, will soon move on to transferring their ideology as well. This sect, which possesses a particular worldview, claims to have abundant evidence to prove the legitimacy of its beliefs and can easily attract and deceive individuals into following it. Therefore, sounding the alarm about Satanism for individuals, families, Islamic countries, and the entire human society is necessary and essential. The present article, while emphasizing the need for vigilance within the Islamic community, enumerates some of the dangers posed by Satanism.
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The Danger of Satanism to Religions and Human Values
Undoubtedly, religion and accepted human values are among the most important matters with which the Satanist sect is in open conflict. This danger is not limited to Islam alone; rather, it encompasses all heavenly religions.
Denial of God
Satanists deny the existence of Allah the Almighty and, instead, believe in Satan. They regard Satan as the absolute ruler of existence and commit the most heinous acts in order to draw closer to him. This sect has built its anti-religious ideas upon three principles:
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a) Negation of faith in Allah;
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b) Denial of the Essence of Allah the Almighty;
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c) Insulting and belittling the divine religions.
Throughout history, the negation of faith and denial of the existence of Allah the Almighty have been the source of all human deviations. Indeed, when a person denies the existence of Allah, he places himself at the mercy of desires and passions, becomes immersed in misguidance and deviation, sinks into the mire of various corruptions, and thinks only of spreading corruption and ruin upon the earth.[1]
The Noble Qur’an depicts this scene as follows: وَمَن يُشْرِكْ بِاللَّهِ فَكَأَنَّمَا خَرَّ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ فَتَخْطَفُهُ الطَّيْرُ أَوْ تَهْوِي بِهِ الرِّيحُ فِي مَكَانٍ سَحِيقٍ Translation: Whoever associates partners with Allah, it is as though he has fallen from the sky and the birds snatch him away, or the wind carries him off to a distant place.[2]
Secularization and the Removal of Religion
Hostility toward religions—especially the true religion of Islam—is another danger of Satanism. The Noble Qur’an has made this enmity clear in the following verse: مَا يَوَدُّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ وَلَا الْمُشْرِكِينَ أَن يُنَزَّلَ عَلَيْكُم مِّنْ خَيْرٍ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ وَاللَّهُ يَخْتَصُّ بِرَحْمَتِهِ مَن يَشَاءُ وَاللَّهُ ذُو الْفَضْلِ الْعَظِيمِ Translation: Those who disbelieve from among the People of the Book and the polytheists do not wish that any good be sent down to you from your Lord; but Allah selects for His mercy whom He wills, and Allah is the Possessor of great bounty.[3]
Satanists believe that the era of religion and traditional religiosity has come to an end, and that modern humanity should, instead of following religion, put it on trial and subject it to questioning.[4]
Secularization and hostility toward religion are common features of all contemporary anti-human movements. Zionism, Freemasonry, atheism, Satanism, and others all share common beliefs, objectives, and existential philosophies, and they operate together on a single front against religion.[5]
Dismantling Human Values
This group expends all its efforts on trampling ethical principles and accepted human values within society. The Satanic Bible portrays hostility toward values and morality, and the dismantling of their foundations, as follows: “Moral values possess no sanctity, and immoral acts are, in fact, ways of drawing closer to Satan.”[6]
To institutionalize this approach, they claim that individuals have absolute freedom in their beliefs and actions, that everything should be measured according to personal desire, and they further believe that those who call to morality have, in reality, disrupted life and corrupted pleasures. Therefore, liberation from all such restraints is considered the only path to attaining pleasures.[7]
One of the intellectual and social foundations of Satanism, which is strongly anti-value, is their belief in the theory that “might makes right.” This way of thinking does not tolerate coexistence or mutual acceptance and rejects compassion and mercy altogether.[8]
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References:
[1]. Qutb, Muhammad Qutb, Jahiliyyah of the Twentieth Century, Beirut: Dar al-Shuruq, 1398 AH, pp. 47–66.
[2]. Al-Hajj: 31.
[3]. Al-Baqarah: 105.
[4]. LaVey, Anton, The Satanic Bible, pp. 31–32–53.
[5]. Nuwayhid, ‘Ajjaj, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, p. 72.
[6]. LaVey, Anton, The Satanic Bible, p. 46.
[7]. Al-Zoubi, Mamdouh, ‘Abdat al-Shaytan, p. 16; ‘Abd al-Mun‘im, Encyclopedia of Sects, Groups, Doctrines, Parties, and Islamic Movements, p. 482.
[8]. Ibid.
