The Ninth Talk The thief on the look
out
for breaking into the house
To prevent Satan from entrenching into your heart you
will have to adopt piety. Shun all things that are not
liked by Allah. Shun avarice, amoral acts, bad habits
and all such evil traits that take you towards illegitimate
acts and illegitimate food. The heart will then be pure
and clean.
Once the heart is cleansed of these things, then piety
will find it's way into it. It will now have the fear
of Allah and the fear of the Day of Reckoning. Now Satan
will be rendered absolutely helpless. He does have the
extreme desire to enter such hearts and waits for the
slightest chance that the person commits a mistake and
opens the way for him.
Satan is like a thief who does reconnaissance of the
fort to find a foothold or the slightest of openings
to break in. But when he notices that the keeper of
the fort is alert he escapes from the ramparts disappointed.
