Satanic Whispers and Their Cure

The questioner : The desire for something, I am plagued by many and great satanic whispers. Satan wants me to utter them, but I do not utter them, no, but he pursues me. What should I do? This complaint, which is the whispers that Satan casts into the heart of a person

The Shaykh : Yes, what? Do you know from when? From the time of the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them), from the time of the Companions. And these whispers that Satan casts into the heart of a person exist, because Satan flows through the son of Adam like blood, flows through the son of Adam like blood. So he reaches his heart and his brain, and when he reaches his heart and his brain, he must detect a scent from him, a scent of firmness in religion or softness in religion. If Satan finds that this man is firm in his religion and that he is strong, he tries to sneak in the door of whispers in order to corrupt his certainty and open for him the door of anxiety. But the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), who is the physician of hearts, said: If any of you finds that, let him seek refuge in Allah and let him stop. So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) indicated two cures: a divine, legislative cure, and a practical cure. The divine, legislative cure is his saying: "Let him seek refuge in Allah." The second, the practical cure, is his saying: "And let him stop," meaning he turns away from these whispers and does not flow with them. And if he does that, then Allah the Exalted wills it, and his nature leaves these whispers. So my advice to those who are afflicted with that is to say: "I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Satan," because this is from the impulses of Satan, and let them turn away from this completely, not turning to it. And let those who are afflicted with that beware of flowing behind these whispers, because if they flow behind them, then Satan will pursue them in every small and great matter, pursue them in faith in Allah, in the prayer, in purity, in fasting, in zakah, in Hajj, even in their wives. Perhaps it is described to him that he has divorced his wife, or perhaps Satan describes to him that the contract is a hasty contract that is not valid, because the wife, for example, is negligent in prayer, and the like of these whispers that Satan casts into the heart of the son of Adam, and its cure is another matter. Yes, come, you must come, you are with us, are you? Present and from where. Okay, please proceed. Yes. You have done well, indeed and such turning away. I do not like to say: "And among them is one who listens to you." Until when they leave from you ?
Many people now are sitting in the gathering listening, but they do not retain it. When he leaves, he asks the others who have knowledge: What did he say just now? Yes, as for the end of the verse, I hope that it does not apply to one of us. Okay, pay attention, and may Allah bless you. The point now is that these whispers have existed since the time of the Companions, but their cure is by two things between which the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) [distinguished]. What do we say about the first? That it is a divine, legislative cure, and the second is a practical cure, and both are from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). Okay,