Qisa Adam Iblees Aur Insaan Ka Imtehan?
Sahih Bukhari – 3038 حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى ، حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ ، عَنْ شُعْبَةَ ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي بُرْدَةَ ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ ، عَنْ جَدِّهِ ، أَنّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بَعَثَ مُعَاذًا وأَبَا مُوسَى إِلَى الْيَمَنِ ، قَالَ : يَسِّرَا وَلَا تُعَسِّرَا ، وَبَشِّرَا وَلَا تُنَفِّرَا ، وَتَطَاوَعَا وَلَا تَخْتَلِفَا . Narrated Abu Burda: That his father said, The Prophet sent Mu`adh and Abu Musa to Yemen telling them. ‘Treat the people with ease and don’t be hard on them; give them glad tidings and don’t fill them with aversion; and love each other, and don’t differ. http://www.theislam360.com
First of all, seeing something or not seeing it should have no bearing on our behavior towards the truth. Satan’s knowledge of God was through direct experience, while ours is primarily through inference. However, former is in no way better than the latter. We don’t see gravity, but through inference we know that it exists. Similarly, we don’t see intellect, but we all know that we have it. In contrast, we may see water in a desert, but it might turn out to be just a mirage. We see the stars above every night, many of which don’t even exist anymore. In conclusion seeing something is not any better or worse than not seeing it. In fact I would argue that after seeing God our test would have been orders of magnitude more difficult. Secondly, Satan has no power over us except to possibly tempt us and divert our attention from the truth . Until we ourselves allow Satan to influence us, he has no affect on our beliefs or actions. In addition to Satan, there are several other factors that motivate us to sin which are discussed in the video shared by Yaseen sahab above. It is these motivating factors that we should be more mindful about because they’re inherent in our nature. Satan might exploit these from time to time, however, even if there was no Satan, our test would still be largely the same in magnitude. For the last part of your question, I won’t comment on any narrations without proper references.