The Devil Sleeps on the Nose of the Muslim

” The devil sleeps on his nose ”

Al-Khayshoom, with the opening of the Kha, the sukoon of the Ya’, the Damma of the voiced and the sukoon of the Waw, is the nose. It was also said: the nostril (nose).

His saying

: ” let him sniff ” is more beneficial than his saying: “let him inhale” because sniffing occurs with inhalation and not the other way around. One may sniff but not sniff. Sniffing is a complete benefit of sniffing, because the reality of sniffing is drawing water with the wind from the nose to its furthest point, and sniffing is removing that water. The purpose of sniffing is cleaning the inside of the nose, and sniffing is removing that dirt with the water, so it is a complete benefit of sniffing. It was also said: sniffing is taken from the tip of the nose, and it was also said: the nose itself. Based on this, whoever sniffs has sniffed, because he believes that he took water with his nose or the tip of his nose, and there is a view on this.

And he said:

The devil sleeps on his nose : this could be one of two things:

1That this is as it appears, and that the devil spends the night in this place, and the devil chooses this place because the nostril is a place of harm and filth. Ibn al-Qayyim - may God have mercy on him - said: “And in the devil spending the night in the nostril there is a secret that is known to whoever knows the rulings on spirits, and the association of devils with the places they inhabit, for the devil is filthy and filthiness suits him, so when the servant sleeps, he does not see on the outside of his body dirtier than his nostril, so he settles in it for the night” [See Ibn al-Qayyim’s commentary on Sunan Abi Dawud (1/85)].

2It is possible that the meaning is that whatever harm and filth is in the nose is in agreement with the devil, because devils are evil and are in evil places. So it is prescribed for the sleeper, when he wakes up, to clean his nose by blowing his nose, which is drawing water into the nose and then expelling it. Judge Iyad said:

“It is possible that this is true, or that it is a metaphor, because what forms from dust and moisture in the nostrils is filth that suits the devil.” See: Al-Nawawi’s commentary on Muslim (3/127).

The apparent meaning of the hadith is that this applies to every sleeper, and it is possible that it is specific to someone who does not protect himself with any remembrance before sleeping, such as reciting Ayat al-Kursi.

Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar said: “The apparent meaning of the hadith is that this happens to every sleeper, and it is possible that it is specific to the one who does not guard against Satan with any remembrance, based on the hadith of Abu Hurayrah, which says: ’ So it was a protection for him from Satan ’. Likewise the Throne Verse, which was mentioned earlier: ’ And no Satan shall come near you ’. It is possible that what is meant by denying closeness here is that he does not come near the place where he whispers, which is the heart, so he spends the night on the nose in order to reach the heart from it when he wakes up. So whoever blows his nose, it prevents him from reaching what he intended from the whispers. So the hadith applies to every awake person.” Fath al-Bari (6/343)…. And Allah knows best.

Come let’s take a look at Satan in Christianity.

Satan is true and God is a liar

Gen 17:2 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat of it, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die …

{Gen 3:4 And the serpent said to the woman, You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil .}

What the serpent (Satan) said came true and the Lord God lied!

Satan is the messenger of God

Job 8:1

And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and upright man, one that feareth God, and shunneth evil?

Peter, Jesus’ disciple, is a devil.

Matthew 23:16

But he turned and said to Peter, ” Get behind me , Satan ! You are a stumbling block to me, because you do not mind the things that are God’s, but the things that are men’s.”

Satan hindered Paul (the Apostle!)

1 Thessalonians 2:18

So we wanted to come to you, Paul, once and twice, but Satan hindered us.