Hawzah News Agency – The merciful prophet of Islam (pbuh) says:

إنّ إبليسَ قالَ: أهلَكتُهُم بِالذُّنوبِ فأهلَكوني بالاستِغفارِ، فلَمّا رأيتُ ذلكَ أهلَكتُهُم بالأهواءِ فهُم يَحسَبونَ أ نّهُم مُهتَدونَ فلا يَستَغفِرونَ.

'Satan said, 'I have destroyed them with sins and they have destroyed me with their seeking for forgiveness from Allah, so when I saw this, I destroyed them with their own desire, so they think that they are guided and they do not seek forgiveness.'

Source: al-Targhib wa al-Tarhib, v. 1, p. 87, no. 13