OCCASION OF REVELATION (VERSE NO. 175)

      In the above mentioned verse (No. 173) it was pointed out that some people said to Muslims: ``The people have gathered against you, and that your enemy has summoned a huge force to come back and once again attack you in Medina. According to historical traditions one of those devils who said so, and knew that it was a mere lie, was named MASUD-IBN-NAEEM. He was a friend of ABUSOFYAN, and after a private meeting with him, he accepted to go to Medina among Muslims and by such false news confuse them and weaken their mentality and courage: ``This is the Satan who frightens his friends.''

Here in this verse NAEEM has been called Satan and has been introduced as a devil, because his deeds were as devilish as that of Satan - a Satan in the form and shape of man!