208- YOU WHO BELIEVE, ENTER INTO ISLAM AND PEACE ALL OF YOU, AND DO NOT FOLLOW THE FOOTSTEPS OF SATAN, FOR HE IS YOUR CLEAR ENEMY.

209- BUT IF YOU FALL INTO SINS AFTER THE CLEAR AYAHS HAVE COME TO YOU, THEN KNOW THAT ALLAH IS MOST EXALTED IN POWER AND MOST WISE.

Some of the Jews of Medina embraced Islam.  Yet some of them wanted to keep some of the Jewish practices like reciting Torah and keeping the Sabbath.  In the mean time they practice Islam as in praying, fasting etc as the rest of the Muslims.  Allah the Highest is telling them that there is no alternative to this Faith and Religion if they want to follow the Right Path; otherwise they are following Satan’s footsteps.  He is our enemy for he made an oath to misguide us “HE (SATAN) SAID: “BY YOUR MIGHT HOOD, I SHALL MIDGUIDETHEM ALL"   (S: 38 A: 82)

Allah the Highest told us again that we are to treat Satan and His ways as enemy, for we do not see him or hear him, but feel his whisper in our hearts and minds “SATAN IS YOUR ENEMY; SO TAKE HIM FOR AN ENEMY”.  (S: 35 A: 6)

Whenever we feel the thoughts coming from the whisper of Satan into our hearts tempting us to do wrong, then we should ask Allah for His protection and rescue from Satan and the rescue will come. This is because Allah the Highest said: “IF A PULL FROM SATAN AFFECTS YOU (TAKING YOU HIS WAY) THEN ASK FOR ALLAH’S PROTECTION, FOR HE HEARS AND KNOWS ALL THINGS”.  (S: 7 A: 200)

Allah the Highest the Most Exalted in Power, but in the mean time Most Wise in the use of this power, is able to protect those who ask for His protection.  Also is able to punish those who disobey him.

Many of us try to wear many incompatible hats, so to speak.  So one might try to earn his living working in a night club or selling alcoholic drinks, in the mean time try to be a good Muslim.  This person might square doing these things with themselves by saying that they are following the religion, but this is something else.  They are then like the Jews who tried to follow Islam as well some Jewish practices.  They should enter fully into Islam if they are sincere in their faith.  We should be aware always of not trying to apply our Religion to some aspects of our lives, but not to the others.

I am not saying that every one of us should be perfect, but should at least strive for it.  One should never see the errors as far as our relationship to Allah the Highest is concerned as being right, trivial, or necessary, for then one will never put them right, or even try to.