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li-yajʿala mā yulqī sh-shayṭānu fitnatan li-llādhīna fī qulūbihim maraḍun wa-l-qāsiyati qulūbuhum wa-ʾinna ẓ-ẓālimīna la-fī shiqāqin baʿīdin
That He may make what Satan has thrown in a test for those in whose hearts is a sickness and those whose hearts have hardened. Indeed the wrongdoers are steeped in extreme defiance.
— Ali Quli Qarai
Surah Al-Hajj – Verse 53
53. “So that He may make what the Satan casts a trial for those in whose hearts is disease and those whose hearts are hard, and verily the unjust are in a deep opposition.”
Satan’s temptations are as a means for testing the hard-hearted and sick-hearted persons. The spiritual sickness and hard-heartedness are usually some suitable grounds for falling into the snare of seditions and temptations. These satanic plots of the opponents are always used for the examination of both the aware believers and the obstinate disbelievers. That is why the Qur’an says:
Then the Qur’an implies that the cruel oppressors have abided in a serious hostility and opposition while they are far from reality and the Truth. The verse continues saying: