Whether Christianity or Islam, most religions tell us that God is loving and Most Merciful. However, there is a seeming contradiction here when we take into account Satan who tries to deceive and turn people away from God.
Does Satan really exist for the disadvantage of mankind? Here, I have an excerpt shedding some light on the matter:
"Q u e s t i o n : The creation of devils, who are pure evil, and their harassing the people of belief, and many people not believing and going to Hell because of them, appears to be terrible and ugly. How does the mercy and beauty of the Absolutely Beauteous One, the Absolutely Compassionate One, the Truly Merciful One, permit this infinite ugliness and awesome calamity? Many people have asked about this question, and it occurs to many people.
T h e A n s w e r : In addition to the minor evils, there are numerous universal good purposes in the existence of Satan, and human attainments and perfections. Yes, however many degrees there are from a seed to a huge tree, the abilities lodged in human nature are more numerous. There are degrees from a minute particle to the sun. For these abilities and potentialities to develop, action is required, a transaction is necessary. The action of the mechanism of progress in such a transaction is brought about through striving. And striving occurs through the existence of evil spirits and harmful things. Otherwise man’s station would have been constant like that of the angels. There would have been no classes in human kind, which resembles thousands of species. And it is contrary to wisdom and justice to abandon a thousand instances of good so as to avoid one minor evil."
The conclusion is that Satan was created so that we would fight against him and his temptations whereby we can gain degrees and do not have a fixed position. Satan is the drive for us to be better, so his being created is not something evil but obeying his temptations is evil like the existence of fire.
Fire has many utilities; yet if one pokes his hand into it, his hand gets burns, now can he say "the existence of fire is evil". Likewise, evil occurs when someone obeys Satan's temptation. His existence is not evil as pointed out.
What would it mean to be good if it weren't something which calls for bad?
What would it be to be successful in an exam if it weren't the challenge involved?
(for other aspects of creation of satan, read the article here: http://www.nur.gen.tr/en.html#leftmenu=Risale&maincontent=Risale&islem=read&KitapId=499&BolumId=8772&KitapAd=Letters+%28+revised+%29&Page=59)
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