1. The Battle Against Shaytaan and his Army
The World of the Jinn
The Battle Against Shaytaan
and his Army

2. Satan uses many deceptive ways to destroy the believer
Satan uses many deceptive ways to destroy the believer. The First being:
He Makes the Evil look Good
He makes the false appear in the form of truth. And he makes what is true appear like falsehood.
He will always try to make humans like falsehood and dislike truth until the human is pushed to doing evil deeds and turning away from the truth.
As Satan himself said to the Lord, "He said:
My Lord! Because you have sent me astray, I verily shall adorn the path of error for them in the earth, and shall mislead every one of them, save such of them as are Your perfectly devoted slaves." (Hijr )

3. Shaytaan makes what will harm the person the most look oh so good to him until he imagines it to be beneficial for him.
Satan bewitches the mind until it follows different desires and various evil opinions.
He leads the person to action after action until the person is destroyed.
This is the strategy of satan since the time of Adam. He makes the falsehood look beautiful and correct and distorts the truth to the point that people hate it.
"By Allah, We verily sent messengers unto the nations before you, but the devil made their deeds fair-seeming unto them. (al-Nah163).

4. Another technique used by shaytaan in his battle against the believer is:
Giving pleasing names to forbidden things
Among the deceptions of Satan is that he names the evil actions with names that are very pleasing to the human to entice him to take part in them. In this way, he dupes the human and makes a forgery of the reality of the situation.
For example, Satan called the tree that was forbidden to Adam, "the tree of everlasting life" in order to make it appealing to Adam

5. Allah further speaks about this in the Quran:
"[But Satan whispered to him, saying,.] .Oh Adam, shall I show you the tree of immortality and power that wastes not away?.. (Taha 120)
Ibn Qayyim stated:
"From Satan, his followers inherited this trait of using names that are loved by the soul for forbidden objects. For example, wine is called "the mother of glee," interest is called a "business transaction" and taxes and tolls are called "the right of the government...
Today interest is referred to as profit; dancing, music and plays are called art.

6. Another technique used in the battle against the believer is
Going to extremes
Ibn al-Qayyim beautifully elaborated this point when he wrote, Allah never orders anything except that Satan takes two contradictory stances towards it: either shortcoming and negligence or overzealousness and exaggeration.
It does not matter [to him] by which of these two mistakes he becomes victorious over the slave. He comes to the heart of the slave and examines it. If he finds in it listlessness and looking for loopholes, he deals with him from that vantage. He strikes him with laziness and opens for him the door to reinterpretations, hopes and so forth until the person may not fulfill anything of what he is commanded.

7. If he finds in the person a heart that is serious and alert and in remembrance if Allah - he orders him to strive even harder and become a fanatic:
He convinces him that what he is doing is not sufficient for him.
He tell him that he must work more than the others.
He tells him that he should not sleep when others sleep. He should not break his fast when others break their fasts. He should not rest when others rest.
If one of them washes his hands and face three times, he should was them seven times.
If one makes wudhu for prayer, he must make ghusl.

8. He thus orders the person to go to the extreme in all things thus losing hope
He makes the person strong in faith stray from the straight path in the same way that he makes the one weak fall short of the straight path and not approach it.
Satans intention for both is to keep them from the path and many of creation are misled by these two strategies.
There is no escape from them except through deep knowledge, faith and the ability to stay along the middle path..

9. Another technique used in the battle against the belivers is:
Satan hinders the slave from acting by means of procrastination and laziness
Concerning this point, Satan has many ways and means. It is recorded in Sahih al- Bukhari that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said,
"During your sleep, Satan ties three knots at the back of your necks. He breathes the following into them, "The night is long so keep on sleeping.. If the person wakes and praises Allah, then one of the knots is unfastened. And if he performs ablution, the second knot is unfastened. When he prays, all of the knots are unfastened. After that he will be energetic and happy in the morning. Otherwise he would get up listless and grouchy.. “

10. It is also recorded in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim that he said
"When one of you rises from you sleep he should make ablution. He should rinse his nose three times. For Satan stays i n the upper part of ones nose during the night..”
Al-Bukhari also records that the Prophet (peace be upon him) was asked about a man who sleeps until the morning comes, that is, after the time of the dawn prayer. He said,
"That is a man whom Satan has urinated into his two ears.. “

11. Another means of his attack is:
False Promises and hopes
Satan makes false promises and sweet dreams to humans in order to mislead them. Allah says,
"He promises them and stirs up desires in them, and Satan promisesthem only to beguile. (Nisa 120).
He also promises the wealthy among the unbelievers more wealth and possessions in the life after this one.

12. Allah tells of a man who once said:
"I think not that the Hour will ever come, and if indeed I am brought back unto my Lord I surely shall find better than this as a resort. (al-Kahf 36)
Allah destroyed his garden in this life and he realized that he had been deceived.
The human becomes busy with sweet dreams concerning which there is no possibility of fulfillment in this life. Therefore, he does not take part in the beneficial and fruitful deeds. Instead, he becomes pleased with dreaming and hoping, and he does nothing.

13. Another means used in the battle is:
Casting doubts in the persons mind
Part of the plan of Satan to mislead mankind is to shake their faith by confusing humans with doubts and suspicions. The Prophet warned us about some of those doubts. In Sahih al-Bukhari it is recorded on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Prophet said,
"Satan comes to you and says, created such and such?. repeatedly,until he asks, "Who created your Lord?" So when he inspires such a thought, one should seek refuge in Allah and turn away from such thoughts.. “

14. Even the Companions of the Prophet were not safe from such thoughts occurring to them. Some of them went to the Prophet to complain about the notions that kept creeping in their minds.
In Sahih Muslim it is recorded on the authority of that some people came to the Prophet and said,
"We find in our mind great things that we cannot dare talk about!" He asked them, "Does it really occur to you?. They said, "Yes." And the Prophet said, "This is the clear faith..”
He meant by that latter statement that to reject and dislike such thoughts and whispers from Satan and to consider such thoughts a grave matter is part of the clear and true faith.

15. Allah speaks of this in the Quran:
"Never sent We a messenger or a Prophet before you but when he recited (the message), Satan attempted to throw some falsehood into it. But Allah abolishes that which Satan proposes. Allah is Knower, Wise. That He may make that which Satan proposes a temptation for those in whose hearts is a disease, and those whose hearts are hardened- Lo! the evildoers are in open schism. And that those who have been given knowledge may know that it is the truth from your Lord, so that they may believe therein and their hearts may submit humbly unto Him. Lo! Allah verily is guiding those who believe unto a right path.
{Hajj 52-54)