The ruling on using the hadith "Satan has despaired" as evidence that shirk (associating partners with Allah) will not return

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Some callers say that shirk (associating partners with Allah) will not return in this ummah (the Muslim community), and their evidence is the hadith: "Satan has despaired of being worshipped in the Arabian Peninsula." Is his evidence correct, and is his argument regarding this issue valid?

Answer:
But the argument is not correct, because the hadith states that Satan has despaired. Satan despaired when he saw the victory of the truth and the emergence of Islam; it is he who despaired, not that Allah made him despair. Therefore, shirk (associating partners with Allah) exists now. If the meaning were that no shirk (associating partners with Allah) would occur in the Arabian Peninsula, the hadith would be contradictory and meaningless. But the meaning of the hadith is that Satan himself despaired and lost hope when he saw the victory of the truth, and this does not prevent falsehood from returning and spreading afterwards. Yes.