Al-A'raf 201: When an evil suggestion from Shaytan touches those who abstain, they remember (Allah’s orders and bans) and see the Truth.

The unfolding of the verses and our talk always become proof that they confirm each other in the light of the verses. What does it say? Those who attain piety — when a whisper from Satan touches them, they remember Allah's commands and prohibitions and at once see the truth. How beautiful. Otherwise Allah does not cancel what is in their hearts. When they see the truth under the (?) of the verses, they understand that the temptation Satan gave them is ignorant. What beautiful verses. And that people governed by the verses will not fall for Satan's temptation, and that this Satan has no power over them — in the light of the verses, how beautifully Allah Almighty warns people with His word.

Those who attain piety, it says — when a whisper from Satan touches them, they remember Allah's commands and prohibitions and at once see the truth. For Allah Almighty, in His verses, holds before people a light, that is, a light with His verses, and becomes a proof for them, a proof. He becomes the seeing eye, the hearing ear of the people who judge by Allah's verses, the holding hand, the walking foot. In this case, with the temptation he gives him, Satan at once, on such feelings, the accursed one crashes and, as if (?) hit, turns right back.

Yes, you see, everything we talk about is with verses, always proven in the light of verses, with Allah's verses. Allah Almighty again in a verse says: Satan's temptation is ignorant toward My servant who knows Me. The whispers and temptations given to people by devils, by the people of piety are understood at once. These people of piety are those who have believed in Allah.

A Muslim will say, I have believed too, but — yes, a Muslim's believing is a good thing. But when it says people of piety, between the Muslim and the person of piety there are chasm-like gaps between them. What chasm-like gaps — between the person of piety and that Muslim, what kind of chasm-like situation is there? If that Muslim had been able to master his nafs, he too would distinguish the lawful from the unlawful, and while advancing on Allah's path, without being carried away by the feelings of the nafs, without being deceived by the world looking rosy to him, he would continue on his way within Allah's commands.

But today we see that many people, although they say Allah, although they act as hodjas, thinking of their own material interests, putting them in the foreground, push Allah's verses into second place, and exploiting us, showing themselves at the head of some position, stepping on people's backs and shoulders, seizing their rights and dues without recognizing them. That is the state of the nafs, the difference between them and the person of piety, chasms, chasms.

Piety — one must possess it. We will heed what is lawful and unlawful. We will not trample on anyone's rights. We will hand everyone's right to the rightful one. Even if it is your father, even your closest one, we will always tell the truth. We will never compromise on Allah's justice. In this case, can you trust yourself? Can you overcome these states of your nafs? Yes, that is the difference between piety and Islam.

Piety is also Islam, Muslim. But people who have overcome the states of the nafs, risen up to the nafs-i mulhima, to the gate of wonders, or from there upward have become content and attained manifestation. People who have become (?). These. Yes. We read again. Allah Almighty again in a verse: to My servant who knows Me Satan's temptation is ignorant, He says. The whispers and temptations given to people by devils, by the people of piety are understood at once. For they are governed by the verses, governed by Allah's sharia rulings, and they are people who do not compromise on Allah's verses.

These people of piety are those who have believed in Allah. That is, from the heart bound to Him and engaged in a struggle with their nafs, trying to cast off from themselves the traits Allah does not want, striving to take out of their hearts what is other than Allah and to put Allah's light into their hearts in its place — such people. For the accursed one commands indecency, shamelessness and evil. Allah, however, commands decency and manners, justice and right. So people of piety, since they are governed by Allah's commands and prohibitions, by holding Satan's temptation up against Allah Almighty's verses, by at once weeding out what goes against the verses, by at once realizing that these temptations are Satan's temptation, they see the truth.

In the previous verse too, about the morals of the Prophet (peace be upon him) we talked. We showed that his morals were the morals of the Quran. That Satan has no power over the Prophet (peace be upon him) we had explained. In this verse, however, the saying that the people of piety, remembering Allah's commands and prohibitions, see the truth: the more someone is shaped by the morals of the Quran, the more Satan's temptation (?) such people, and such people they cannot deceive and fool. Yes.