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According to Muhammad, Allah wants human beings to sin so that he can show us mercy. Islam even teaches that, if human beings refuse to sin, Allah will wipe us out and replace us with people who will sin. But if Allah would destroy us for not sinning, then we're only here right now because we sinned. Why did we sin? The Qur'an teaches that we sinned because Satan (Iblis) tempted us. This means, of course, that we're only alive because Satan tempted us to sin. Satan therefore turns out to be our secret savior in Islamic theology.