Contemporary Islam means ritualism, mysticism

The brain is deceived but not the soul The deceiver talked to him and got his brain to be completely attentive to what the deceiver was saying. He got so involved, so engrossed in what the deceiver was saying to him about things that he did not have a complete knowledge of, hardly any knowledge of that he could not hear with the ear of his soul. So he was deceived into believing a rationale that was given to him by satan, the shaytan, the devil himself. But the soul never bought it and the soul could not speak loud...