*🖋🌹💠 Lesson-Giving Story 💠🌹🖋* *👈 The Worshipper and Satan __!!* There was a pious man in a village who worshipped Allah SWT a lot and disliked disbelief (Kufr) and polytheism (Shirk). There was a tree in that village, and some villagers used to worship it. When some people informed the pious man about this, he became very angry and set out to cut down the tree. On the way, he met Satan, who was in the form of a human at that time. Satan asked him, "Hey mister! Where are you going?" He replied, "There is a tree at such-and-such place, people worship it, I am going to cut it down." Satan tried to misguide him, "Brother! You do not worship it, so what harm is it doing to you? Do not cut it." The man replied, "I will definitely cut it." A fight broke out between the two over this matter, and the pious man slammed Satan to the ground. Satan said, "Let me go, I want to talk to you." So he released Satan. Then Satan said to him, "Look, the truth is that cutting the tree will not bring you any benefit; therefore, do not cut the tree, and we will give you two dinars (two gold coins) every day, which is to your benefit." The man asked, "Where will I get those coins?" Satan replied, "When you wake up in the morning, take them from under your pillow." The man agreed to this and returned from there. When morning came, he actually found two dinars (two gold coins) under his pillow, and he was very happy. But the next morning, he found nothing under his pillow. He got angry again and set out to cut the tree. On the way, he met the same Satan again. Satan asked, "Hey mister! Where do you intend to go?" He said, "I am going to cut down that same tree." Satan said, "You cannot cut it." Saying this, Satan slammed the man to the ground, climbed onto his chest, and began to choke him. Then Satan said to the man, "Do you know? I am Satan. The first time you set out to cut the tree, your purpose was to please Allah; therefore, you slammed me down. But now, you have come out to cut the tree because you did not get the two dinars. Now your intention has changed; that is why you are in this state today." [ Talbees-e-Iblees: 1/ 30, 31 ]
