[2:268] Satan promises you poverty and enjoins you to indecency, but God promises you His pardon, and His bounty; and God is Embracing, Knowing.
Satan promises poverty because of his poverty. God promises forgiveness because of His generosity.
Satan promises you poverty and points you towards holding on to what is known. It is said he points you, in yielding to him, to greed and there is no poverty worse than that.
He promises you poverty by handing you over to your self-directing (tadbīr) and self-choosing (ikhtiyār).
He promises you poverty in forgetting what you have become accustomed to from His bounty.
It is said He promises you poverty in that he does not let your complaints cease.
It is said he promises you poverty in attaching your heart to what it doesn't need.
It is said [he promises you poverty] by deceiving you from seeing that He is sufficient.
He enjoins you to indecency, i.e. desire for the present world.
It is said [He enjoins you to indecency] by the bonds that strengthen greed.
It is said [He enjoins you to indecency] by multiplying expectations and forgetting contentment.
It is said [He enjoins you to indecency] by following carnal desires and by preferring worldly fortunes.
It is said [He enjoins you to indecency] by looking to something other than Him and in allowing anything to enter the mind except Him.
It is said [He enjoins you to indecency] by going backwards to the familiar territories of permissiveness and interpretative license after the truth has become clear.
It is said [He enjoins you to indecency] by returning to what you had abandoned for God.
But God promises you His pardon, and His bounty: The bounty promised in the here and now is contentment. In the future it is the reward, the Garden, the vision, the good pleasure, pardon and forgiveness.
It is said it is victory in the here and now over the lower self.
It is said it is the opening of the door of mystical knowing, the spreading of the carpet of forgiveness, and receiving the unveilings of intimacy.