God says:
O you who have attained to faith! Surrender yourself wholly unto God, and follow not Satan’s footsteps, for, verily, he is your open foe. -- Q.2: 208
Say: “some [of you] He will have graced with His guidance, whereas for some a straying from the right path will have become unavoidable: for, behold, they will have taken [their own] evil impulses [shyateen] for their masters in preference to God, thinking all the while that they have found the right path!” -- Q.7: 30
If a prompting from devil stirs you up (with blind anger) * then seek refuge with God; for He is alert and aware.-- Q.7: 200
* I.e., anger at the rejection of the truth by “those who choose to remain ignorant”. The words “to blind anger” interpolated between brackets are based on a Tradition according to which the Prophet, after the revelation of the preceding verse calling for forbearance, exclaimed, “And what about [justified] anger, O my Sustainer?” – whereupon the above verse was revealed to him (Tabari, Zamakshari, Razi, Ibn kasir)
Verily, they who are conscious of God, bring God to their rememberance whenever any dark suggestion from Satan touches them – whereupon, lo! they begin to see things clearly,- Q.7:201
Prophet said:
1. "Seek protection of God from the turmoil of calamities, attacks of misfortune, the evils of decree and the joys of enemy" – H: Bukhari and Muslim. Narrator: Abu Hurairah.
2. “O God! I seek refuge to Thee from cares, anxieties, weakness, indolence, cowardice, miserliness, burden of debt and suppression by men” – H: Bukhari and Muslim. N: Anas.
3. “O God! I seek refuge to thee from a learning which gives no benefit, and from a heart that does not fear (God), and from a desire which is not satisfied and from an invocation which is not responded to” – H: Muslim. N: Zaid-b-Arqam.
Note: After the name or the title of the Prophet please say “Sual-lal lahu ‘Alaihi wa Sal-lam”; after the name or the title of every prophet (nabi) and apostle (rasul) say “ ‘Alai hissalaam”; and after every name of the family member, as well as, companion, say “Radi Allahu ‘Anhu”.
