It is also related in the Sahih that Usayd ibn al-Hudayr was reciting Surah al-Kahf when he saw something like a canopy containing what looked like lamps. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “That was tranquillity descending to hear the Quran.”

It is also related in the Sahih: “Allah has angels besides those who record people’s deeds. When they see people remembering Allah, they call to one another: ‘Come to what you seek!’” The hadith continues at length.

These newly introduced listening sessions are attended by devils, as those to whom this has been unveiled have seen, and as the effects of devils upon their participants demonstrate. Indeed, many of them are so overcome by ecstasy that they collapse like someone suffering a seizure and cry out as such a person does. Words pass over their tongues whose meaning they do not understand and which are not in their own language, just as happens to someone suffering a seizure. Sometimes this comes from the devils associated with a group of disbelievers whom the participants in these listening sessions resemble at heart. This has been observed among many people who would speak during