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In the previous session, you spoke about turning the hidden demons within each person into believers.
Could you offer more guidance on how to recognize these demons, guide them, and be rid of them? Is there a practice specifically intended for these demons?
Anything that dims the remembrance of God in the heart and distracts a person with anything other than God is a sign of Satan’s presence. Outward or excessive acts of worship that lead to forgetting God or getting ahead of the Qur’an and the Ahl al-Bayt are also included. Forty days of sincere devotion and worship banish demons from the heart and make way for blessing.
Anything that dims the remembrance of God in the heart and occupies a person with other than God is a sign of the ego asserting its power and Satan’s presence. This includes even acts of worship that do not uphold and strengthen the Sharia and that ultimately lead to forgetting God and getting ahead of the Qur’an and the Ahl al-Bayt. Indeed, anything that outwardly resembles worship but is inwardly devoid of its remembrance falls into the category of merely formal, outward worship. The worship of extremists and those who exaggerate in religion is among these forms of worship: they perform acts of devotion that no messenger or saint has ever performed.
Thus, anything that leads away from God’s will and command is a clear sign of Satan’s deliberate, strategic presence.
When a person turns the heart into a hell for devils, they will either flee from it or, to protect themselves, come to believe in God.
Purity, sincerity and wholehearted devotion will turn the world of the heart into a paradise for angels and the friends of God, and a hell for devils. To attain this station, one must hold fast with pure and sincere devotion to the Two Weighty Things. It is enough to worship God with such sincerity for forty days: this strips the devils of their satanic character. If one perseveres, their satanic influence is driven from the heart and blessing takes its place. Yet one must never let one’s guard down; until death, one must remain ever ready to serve God.
Alid worship guides the devils of the heart: worship in the manner of Muhammad and the Family of Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him and his family.