The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 182
182. Essence of Islam II mysteries should become obvious and visible to the eyes of the world for if they had been obvious there would have been no merit in believing in them. [Ā'īna-e-Kamālāt-e-Islām, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 5, pp. 185-188, footnote]. Functions of the Holy Spirit and Satan. One of the questions raised is: If the Holy Spirit is appointed to restrain a person from evil conduct, then why does he commit sin and why is he involved in disbelief and disobedience and vice? The answer is that. God Almighty has for the purpose of testing man appointed two spiritual callers; one caller to good whose name is the Holy Spirit and the other caller to vice, whose name is Iblis and Satan. These two callers only call to good or evil but do not exercise any compulsion as is indicated in the verse: فالهَمَهَا فُجُورَهَا وَتَقْويها 49. This means that God reveals the wrong and the right. . . . . The means of revealing the wrong is Satan, who makes evil suggestions, and the means of revealing the right is the Holy Spirit, who puts pure thoughts in the heart. As. God Almighty is the Cause of causes He has attributed both these types of revelation to Himself because all this system is instituted by Him. Otherwise, what power would Satan have to make evil suggestions to anyone's heart and what power would the Holy Spirit have to guide anyone along the paths of righteousness?. Our opponents the Āryās, the Brahmūs and the Christians, out of their short-sightedness, raise an objection to the teaching of the Holy Qur'ān that according to it God 49 Al-Shams, 91:9 [Publisher]