Full disclosure: I have more or less an antisocial personality. I approach most social interactions as experiments in which I gather data about human psychology and behaviour, to be cross-referenced later with other information stored in my brain that allows me to develop sets of character patterns that I then refer to when there is some reason for me to need to anticipate what people may do. Odd, I know, but it is what it is.
This being the case, I have learned that you tend to discover a great deal more about someone when you explore their willingness to do evil than when you explore their willingness to do good. In fact, you tend to cut right through their facade; their public persona, and straight into, as it were, ‘the heart of their mystery’.
Within a very short period of time, you will find that you know them better than most people who think they know them well, and they take you as a confidante.
Now, consider what Shaytaan knows about you, and it should give you pause.
It is important for me to clarify here that I do not regard the public persona as fake; it may be nine parts aspirational and only one part actual; but it is generally the best in them, and it is real. The darker side of them is real too, and it is useful to know it; but it is also useful to remember that it is also only partially actual, and partially latent and subdued. For me, I prefer to know the darker side in people so I can both better evaluate the risks of dealing with them, and also to better appreciate the struggle they are enduring to manage those risks themselves.
This is where Shaytaan’s evaluation is flawed. The Devil sees the evil we hide and thinks it is our true nature, and our public persona is entirely false. He cannot grasp that it is this very dichotomy inside each of us that gives value to our moral choices.