Allah Most High has also said:

“We never sent any messenger or prophet before you without Satan casting something into his recitation when he recited. But Allah abrogates what Satan casts; then Allah firmly establishes His verses. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.”

[Surah al-Hajj: 52]

This is the removal of something cast by Satan that Allah did not reveal. At most, it was merely thought that Allah had revealed it, yet He has stated that He abrogated it.

Allah Most High has also said:

“Indeed, when those who fear Allah are touched by an impulse from Satan, they remember, and at once they see clearly. But their brethren draw them ever further into error and never cease.”

[Surah al-Arāf: 201–202]

How, then, can someone whom Satan continually draws further into error, while he neither remembers nor sees clearly, be among those who fear Allah?

Allah Most High also says in the verse concerning divorce:

“Whoever fears Allah, He will make a way out for him and provide for him from where he does not expect.”

[Surah al-Talāq: 2–3]

In the hadith narrated by Abū Dharr from the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—he said:

“O Abū Dharr, if all people acted upon this verse, it would suffice them.”

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When a man transgressed the limit prescribed by Allah concerning divorce, Ibn Abbās and other Companions would say to him: “Had you feared Allah, He would have granted you a way out and relief.”

It is well known that what is meant by fearing Allah here is not merely avoiding shirk. And among the last (2)