It is narrated from Hazrat Mujahid that he said: Evil thoughts and imaginations about devils and such used to come to me. I asked Hazrat Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) about this. He said: Tell me whatever you have seen. Do not be afraid of it. Because just as you are afraid of it, it is also afraid of you. Do not become even more cowardly than it. Hazrat Mujahid says: Then I saw it again, so I struck it with a stick until I even heard the sound of the blow.