Iblis: A Psychological Profile | Nouman Ali Khan

is thatl is actually very strategic. He's not delusional. He's not crazy.

He's not a psychotic person. He's not he doesn't have a psychological disorder. He's actually very intelligent.

He's very very intelligent. He's the ultimate marketing strategist. He's the ultimate, you know, um uh propaganda specialist.

Going right into the middle of the story in Allah said, "What stopped you that you didn't do saga? when I commanded you, what stopped you? So now this is really interesting.

Allah didn't say why did you disobey he didn't say why did you disobey he said what stopped you what stopped you something is inside his personality stopped him he was going to do it he was going to do sag but then something got in the way and Allah is telling us there's something inside him that gets in the way now few quick things doesl have intellect? Is he smart? Yes.

Does he have free will? Yes. Does he have a sense of right and wrong?

What's right and what's wrong? Does he have moral responsibility? Yeah, he has all of those things.

And when he disobeyed Allah, this is different from when an atheist disobys Allah. This is different from when someone who says, "I have nothing to do with religion," disobys Allah. because they're like, "God, Allah, what Allah?

I don't know what Allah is. I don't have to obey anyone. I'm a free person.

" He doesn't see himself that way. He knows that he is a slave of Allah. He knows.

So, he's intelligent. He has free will. He's morally responsible.

And he's knowledgeable. He's knowledgeable. And now Allah is telling him, you have all the all the check boxes.

And when somebody has all of those check boxes, you have intelligence, you have ability to understand, you you know who Allah is, you know you're a slave, then there's no reason to disobey. Something must be very big that got in the way that kept you from disobeying, a direct command from Allah. You also have to understand when he received this command, we we receive a command, for example, the command to pray, we receive this command in wi, we receive it in the Quran, but we don't see Allah.

We don't hear Allah. We just read Allah's book. We hear it from a prophet.

Ll is hearing this command from who? From Allah directly. He's not receiving it indirectly from a messenger, an angel who came to a messenger.

Then the messenger came to the people and many generations later now you're hear. No, no, no. It's very direct.

Directly from Allah. Can you imagine the difference between your need to obey Allah, the seriousness of obeying Allah? If Allah is talking to you directly as opposed to if you are getting the message thousands of years later from revelation there's a difference isn't it?

I mean on judgment day nobody will dare to disobey Allah. Why? So Allah is right in front of them right in front of them.

Allah is right in front of him telling him do such that and he says no. So no matter he of course if you are in the presence of Allah you have fear of Allah. You have fear of Allah.

But something inside him is even bigger than the fear of Allah. Something so big it stopped him. This this has to be understood properly.

And we have to take a deeper look. He has a picture of himself. When you look in the mirror, when I look in the mirror, we have a we see ourselves.

But even when you don't look in the mirror, you have a concept of yourself. You have a self-image. I am this person.

I go to this university. I am a teacher. I am respected.

I am this. I am the head of my family. I have I have these qualities, these qualities, etc.

, etc. You have a picture of yourself. And part of that picture, you make that picture a lot.

Sometimes people make that picture based on comparison to others. I am better than this one. I'm better than this one.

I am number one. I'm the top executive. I'm the CEO.

I own these many businesses. I am I I I graduated from the best university. I make more money than my brother.

My I'm my dad's favorite child. I'm the most beautiful. When I walk in the room, everybody looks at me.

Nobody pays attention to anyone else. I have these many followers. All of these things are part of your image.

This is what makes you important. For some people, their image has to do with how much do people give them value. Your value doesn't come from yourself.

Your value comes from how people see you. When Allah gave this command that saga will be done to Adam to all of the angels, all of a sudden he had a he had a picture in his head that nobody is more special than me. I have this VIP status.

All the angels are here. There's no other gins here. All the other people here are angels.

I'm the only jin who gets to be here. I got some special st. He looks himself in the mirror and says, "Yep, time for the meeting.

No other jin has made it this far. Nobody. That's who I am.

Look at the place Allah has given me. And when Allah talks to angels, he includes me. He includes me.

So he has a very high self-image. And Allah is making this announcement about this this other who's this? Why is he special?

And if he's special, then I'm not that special anymore. If he's getting all this attention and Allah is saying all the angels have to do saga this way, including me. Including me, what about me?

I've been here a long time. I've done these many these many things. That's why I got promoted.

I deserve it. What did he do to deserve it? He doesn't deserve it.

So now what gets inside him is his, you know, I told you we have an image of ourselves. The image of himself is shaken because part of his image was I am more special than everybody else. I'm number one.

Now he feels like if there's no number one, I don't accept number two. Either you're number one or you're zero. I need to be number one.

There's no way you get to break my self-image. So he has to decide. Either he will break the rule of Allah or he will break his self-image, his picture of himself.

He has to decide. And he decided, I cannot break my my pride. I cannot break my self-image.

I would rather disobey Allah. He is so scared. So he's actually scared of letting go of that image.

He can't let it go. He's actually afraid of it because if I let go of that image then I'm like everyone else then I'm equal to because when they do saga like we're going to do sag in salah when we do sagd nobody's ahead of anybody else. Everybody's down in the same place.

Everybody's equal. I have no special status. I have no special recognition.

This is a a a a great challenge for So what does he do now? This is the next part. I kept telling you that he's very intelligent.

My pride was hurt, but I'm not the one at fault. Somebody did this to me. He finds two people to blame or two two to blame.

He blames Adam and he blames Allah. He blames two. One was not enough.

He has to blame two. First he blames Adam and his his anger towards Adam is if Adam wasn't there I would have been special if Adam wasn't there if he didn't come along I would have still been number one all of this is happening because of him did Adam ever do anything tolam no butl is so hurt by the existence of Adam now he has to spend the rest of his existence taking revenge revenge from Adam and Adam said what did I do bro Allah just made me I didn't say do sag to me Allah said I didn't say it just leave me alone no no no no no I'm I'm going to I'm going to destroy you and your kids and their kids and their kids and the more revenge he takes does he destroy the children of Adam yeah the more children he destroys eventually when you destroy you feel like okay I had my revenge I had enough I had enough I burned enough Nope. Was not done because the problem isn't Adam at all.

The problem is his image broke. And no matter how many people you destroy, you can't fix this. You can't you can't restore this.

That's that's where his problem actually is. And he can't let go. The rage keeps going.

You might meet people in your life whose rage doesn't go away. It's possible. It might be me.

It might be you whose rage doesn't go away. You can't forgive. You can't let go.

And on the other side, he even blamed Allah. Ya Allah, you created this situation. You put me in a trap.

It's you to blame. So, not only do you blame people, you also start blaming your religion. You blame Allah, too.

And and you did this, so I'm going to take revenge. This need for revenge, this need for destruction, this need for how dare you, a life of sabotage, lifelong sabotage. This has another dimension inshallah very briefly in a couple of minutes I'll explain this to you also if you think the only value you have is being special thinks the only value he has is being number one your value doesn't come from what you do your value comes from how people see you listen carefully your value does not come from what you do according tol doesn't matter what you do the value comes from how people see you.

If you're the CEO, I I have respect because I'm the CEO. If I'm a terrible CEO, if I'm a mean CEO, if I'm a greedy CEO, if I'm a corrupt, it doesn't matter. I get respect because I'm the CEO.

If somebody's a a taxi driver, right? He shouldn't get too much respect because he's just a taxi driver. Doesn't matter if he's honest, doesn't matter if he takes care of his family, doesn't matter if he's truthful, doesn't matter that he fears Allah.

And no, no, no, no. What you do does not give you respect. Your rank gives you respect.

The CEO is over there. Taxi driver is down here. You understand?

El in his mind, your value does not come from what you do. Your value comes from how people see you, from your rank. This is the fundamental thing he wants to put inside human beings.

You should see your value not from what you do. You should see your value from how people see you. How many followers do you have?

Are you taller than this person or shorter than this person? Are you getting more attention or are you making more money? Are they making more money?

What brand clothes are you wearing? Your entire value comes from identity, not from from contribution. That's the value system.

And this is the value system. So many young faces here. This is the value system you are being fed constantly on social media.

Constantly. What car are you driving? What kind of house do you live in?

What kind of clothes are you wearing? What is what does your physical appearance look like? What what what brands do you have?

Right? How many people laugh at your jokes, etc. , etc.

This is value. This is where value comes from. It does.

And you know when you become that obsessed with value, then there are people who understand that this value problem is for stupid people. So they pray on your stupidity. So you can go to go to a mall and you'll see like Louis Vuitton and Chanel and you know Rolex and all this stuff, right?

And uh a bag a Chanel bag thousands of dollars is still made from a cow. [laughter] It wasn't made from a cow on the moon or like a radioactive material. It's it's just a bag and it still holds your cheap stuff.

doesn't. But you know what? If I hold that bag, I It's not the bag that has more value.

Because I'm holding it, I have more value. Look at what I have in my hand. Look at the watch I'm wearing.

Look at the car I'm driving. This is El's process. Now, he got removed from number one.

So, if he got removed, he has no what? No value. According to him, he has no value.

Now when a person believes that they have no value then they say okay you think I have no value I will make sure that you can never avoid me I will keep creating problems for you and I keep I will keep giving you pain because even if I'm not if I'm not valuable I'll never be forgettable. I'll never I'll always be there to create problems for you because now his only value is being relevant. And how can he be relevant?

Relevant causing pain. Causing pain. That's that's the only relevance I have left.

I must do it because it will give me value. This is how I will be remembered. Because if I don't cause pain and I'm not number one, I become invisible.

I would rather create problems than be invisible. That's what I would rather do. This mindset takes over that instead of, you know, um instead of me changing my behavior, I need to change the way people see me.

If they don't see me as a number one, they'll see me as the biggest problem. If I wasn't the best number one, I'll be the worst number one. But I still got number one.

I still got one somehow. This is the mentality. And that's what he wants for human beings.

That's what he wants for us. We we have to step back and understand what he's doing. And the last thing I'll share with you because my time's up is thatl is actually very strategic.

He's not delusional. He's not crazy. He's not a psychotic person.

He's not he doesn't have a psychological disorder. He's actually very intelligent. He's very very intelligent.

He's the ultimate marketing strategist. He's the ultimate, you know, um, uh, propaganda specialist. He is, but we're talking about what goes on in his own in his own head.

In his own head, he created a story. In that story, who did the wrong thing? Allah did something wrong.

And Adam doesn't deserve Adam. This is who's wrong. He created that story.

Now that he created that story, it doesn't matter how much evidence he sees that his story is wrong because he's smart. He sees evidence that his story is wrong. Doesn't matter.

Now that I've created this story and in this story I deserve to be number one and I was removed unfairly. I will not allow this story to break from my head. Everything I will do will be based on this story.

I don't need the truth. I have my truth. My truth is more important than the truth.

So that the you can give me all the truth you want. Won't matter because I already created my truth. He wants human beings to create you each of you.

He wants you to create your truth. Each of you your own truth. Your own truth.

Your own truth. And then somebody comes along. I don't want to hear it.

I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it. Look at Look at Yakubam.

He's a prophet, right? Yahu Alisam and his k his kids were Muslim and he's giving dawa to them for many years. Do they listen to him?

His own Muslim kids didn't listen to him and he's a prophet. And all these years later, even then, cuz they had a story in their head. In their story, who was wrong?

Ysef is wrong and YaKob is wrong. They're not wrong. So even years later, they say, "You're still confused old man.

" Basically, that's what they're saying to him, right? Because they cannot break their story. They will break the world to keep their story intact.

To keep their story intact. This this is some of the the p small pieces of the personality ofl. And he wants me.

He wants you. He wants the people you love. He wants those people to take parts of this personality and poison their life.

It's not enough for him to suffer. If I fall, if I lost number one, I will make sure you lose it, too. If all of us fail, that'll satisfy me.

I'm I know I'm going to burn anyway. I know I'm going to burn. Now, the only agenda I have left is I need to make sure you burn.

It's the only thing that can satisfy me now. May Allah protect us from the May Allah protect us from being those who Allah saysan don't fall into the footsteps ofan. May Allah protect all of us from shaitan.

All of us can fall into his footsteps. You can take one step or you can take a thousand steps. You can take 10,000 steps.

But at any time you can take a step back. If you've been following his footsteps for a long time, doesn't matter. You can still now that you recognize it.

You can step back or you can say, you know what, my truth is more important than the truth. And I can even talk directly to Allah and say, "No, no, no. You're the one who's wrong.

You made me from fire. You made him from clay. " [laughter] He's teaching Allah.

Like Allah doesn't know how he made someone. He's going to educate Allah because he's he's now thinking that my truth is more powerful than anything else. May Allah protect us from that kind of arrogance.

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