Can Shaytan Use Your Good Deeds Against You? | Quranic Psychology | Dr Mohammad Akram Nadwi

What if Shaytan’s greatest trick is not always to make you sin—but sometimes to encourage you to do good? In this powerful extract from the Who Am I? – Diploma in Qur’anic Psychology (Tazkiyah al-Nafs), Shaykh Dr Mohammad Akram Nadwi explores a subtle danger in the spiritual life: even prayer, fasting, teaching, charity and other acts of worship can become corrupted when the heart develops the wrong intention. Drawing on the classical Islamic tradition, he explains three ways an apparently good deed can be corrupted: 1. Wrong intention — seeking admiration, status or superiority rather than Allah. 2. Wrong method — performing an act in a way that departs from the guidance of the Prophet ﷺ. 3. Wrong goal — using an act of worship primarily to obtain a worldly outcome for which it was not prescribed. A person may outwardly be doing something virtuous while pride, self-admiration, showing off or the desire for worldly recognition quietly enters the heart. The lesson is profound: tazkiyah is not simply about avoiding sins. It is about continually examining the heart—even while doing good. From the Who Am I? – Diploma in Qur’anic Psychology with Shaykh Dr Mohammad Akram Nadwi at Cambridge Islamic College. 📍 Onsite in Cambridge 🌍 Live online worldwide 🎥 Recordings available to participants ⁠Course details & registration Learn more & register: http://www.bit.ly/cic-whoami