(In the Name of God, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful)
(Peace be upon you)
Satan has the following powers/characteristics we know from the Qur'an and ahadith (prophetic traditions): flying, causing sickness, healing, invisibility, flowing through the bloodstream, powers of insinuations into the heart and mind and consciousness, ability to do/partake in sorcery, power of deception, entering dreams, foretelling the future, possessing at will human beings/inanimate objects/places, making things disappear/stealing, eating with human beings, lodging with human beings, appearing to the naked human eye as an animal or another human, touching human beings, eating food with human beings, appearing during bad words/arguments, sowing discord/mischief/suspicion/bloodshed, being hasty and giving into anger, diverting attention from prayer/supplication/meditation specific to the One God, acting patiently for human beings to forget God, blocking charity, crying during human prostration to One God.
If you or anyone on this board would like specific references from the above list, I'd be
InshaAllah (God-willing) most happy to provide it.
Satan is not all-powerful as that attribute belongs only to God, and in the Qur'an (4:76), Allah calls Satan's plot "weak." However, human beings do fall for the plots. When seemingly "miracles" happen like idols in temples drinking milk or talking as has happened in temples in India, weak Muslims and Christians have even gone to the temple to feed the idol milk or see the talking happening when we should know that the inanimate object has been possessed by Satan. In that same way, the cross is an inanimate object and has no power to heal. However, when Satan sees
shirk (idolatry) being committed, he heals the same sickness if he thinks it will benefit him in having human beings commit
shirk (idolatry) because his end goal in life is to take people away from monotheism.
Please realize there have been sightings of Mary
(peace be upon her) and people have felt that indeed she is the Mother of the "Son of God"
(nauzbillah/God forbid) and so have become regular churchgoers or Lord Krishnaor Lord Hanuman and so have worshiped him in Hindu temples with sweet offerings; however, we know from the powers of Satan that I've enumerated from you above that these sightings are the ability of Satan to take on the appearance of human beings or animals. Therefore, we know that such things are from Satan's deception.
Also, if we're talking specifically about Christianity, you should know that a lot of pagan elements are currently practiced by regular Christians such as having Christmas trees ("for the customs of the peoples are vanity; for it is but a tree which one cutteth out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe") or drinking wine and eating bread seen to represent the blood and flesh of Christ, rituals that are also practiced in Satanism as offering to Satan and in Wicca to either Nature, Moon Goddess, or Satan; so, these are all elements of
shirk (idolatry) that have become common in Christians' practice of religion but which is completely antithetical to Old Mosaic Law because Jesus
(peace be upon him) as we know was a Jewish Rabbi whose sole purpose in being sent as a guide to the Jewish people was to guide them away from their harshness and hardheartedness and uneven application of the Mosaic Law.
In some churches, "speaking in tongues" is considered an honor when that is clear-cut possession invited from dealings with
shirk (idolatry) which Satan uses as an opportunity to possess the ignorant.
(And peace be upon you)
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