When the Shepherds become wolves

I was washing the dishes yesterday whilst listening to When the Wolves become Shepherds by Shaykh Muhammad al Shareef. He explained from hadith that the battle field of Shaytan is the market place because this is the pivotal place where we are most distracted by Allah and surrounded by all sorts of evil temptations. But Shaykh Muhammad explained that marikatusShaytan is not just the mall but all sorts of marketing such as the radio, the billboards on the street, magazines and the more of all, the television. When we lift our gaze and watch a lewd picture or hear a smutty word we are being murdered by the Shaytan and this is third-fifth degree homicide because Shaytan kills our heart through these depraved images on the Billboards and perverted words on the radio. He butchers our imaan, he eats up or good deeds until we are addicted to shamelessness and wasting our time.

Shaykh Muhamamd al Shareef emphasized that we are in a battle with Shaytan, there are armies, weapons and strategies. If we wish to survive, we must take this war seriously and fight it tooth and nail (with everything we got).

Shaykh Muhammad al Shareef asked us to imagine a bomb blast. Visualize littered limbs, maimed faces, shrieks, blood, tears. Every single person dies except for one. Men, women and children massacred. Bones crushed, flesh burned. Nothing survived but one person. This is the same scenario with our war against Shaytan. From a thousand human beings, only one will pull through. Shaytan will incapacitate and mangle 999 people from a group of thousand people, and one soul will escape. Thats  how menacing and perilous is our clash with Shatyan.
Shaykh Muhammad al Shareef said Shaytan employs seven ways through which he attacks people. Every one must listen to this lecture to learn these seven ways and do utmost to defend himself against Shaytan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dci9EsvTrE

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However what I really got out from this lecture, the heart of the matter, of paramount lesson which I derived from this lecture is that Shaytan is an enemy to all human beings, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Atheists, Sikhs and Muslims altogether. Especially in the 21century, Muslims have been led to believe that the Jews or Zionists are our enemy, the Christians are crusading against us when in fact they are as much victimized by Shyatan as we are. We, human beings, are constantly at each others throats. Every moment, we burst with anger and rage against the other religious or ethnic group. We breed hatred and transfer it to our children too. This is also Shaytan's plot. To keep us busy with war, and contention.  I think we must realize this.
Now that I am aware that Shaytan targets the Christians and other non-Muslims too, I feel bad for them so much. Shaytan is succeeding in taking them Hellfire.
We really need to see the Christians as victims. They need our help. It is true that they are invading our (Muslim) homelands. Allah is sending them to us. They are in our neighbourhoods, our schools, workplaces. They are the leading celebrities, athletes etc. Let's reach out to everyone as much as we can and tell them all about the Qur'an. Read a small portion of it (a portion that touches us the most, that is related to Allah) and read it to them. I am sure when they understand the Qur'an, they would want to leave Shaytan's trap.

Let's help them inshaAllah. Remember Shaytan is the enemy! If people are doing something wrong, its not because they are not intrinsically evil. Shaytan has blinded them temporarily. Help them see the truth as Allah has revealed in the Qur'an.