Why have all religions taken the symbol of Satan, considering Satan as a separate entity? The idea has often been laughed at. It is laughed at by a Hindustani poet who says: "How ridiculous man is. He does wrong and then he blames Satan." Yet the religions have always taught this idea. God is always given all the credit, and Satan is given all the blame. We cannot say that there is one atom or one vibration that is apart from God. No-one whether Sufi or not, who has risen to inspiration and revelation has ever thought that there was anything apart from God, only it is covered over.

No-one likes what is wrong. However low, however foolish and ignorant a sinner he may be, if you explain before him what virtue is and what right is, he will like it. This is because his real self does not like what is wrong. The nature of the self is to like what is good, to do good. The religions have called this spell Satan, that we may recognize its deluding nature.

It is always there all our life, waiting to delude us. While we are lying comfortably in bed, we can never appreciate another's troubles. If we are full of pudding, we cannot feel for another's hunger. No-one has risen above the delusion of this life without giving up some of the habits, some of the inclinations, some of the tendencies of our everyday life in the pursuit of truth. If God were a third person, man would have idealized two other beings, Rahman and Satan. God bless you.