Translations:On Üçüncü Lem'a/106/en
So too everyone has experienced in himself the inner faculty situated in a corner of the heart which is the means to diabolical suggestions(*[1]) and temptations and is a satanic tongue that speaks at the promptings of the surmising faculty and the corrupted power of imagination, which becomes like a small Satan and acts contrary to its owner’s will and opposed to his desires – these are certain evidences of the existence of great satans in the world.
- ↑ *See, Tirmidhi, Tafsir Sura 35:2; al-Nasa’i, al-Sunan al-Kubra, vi, 305; al-Bazzar, al-Musnad, v, 394; Abu Ya’la, al-Musnad, vii, 278; viii, 417.