The Devils Deception by Imam Ibn AL-Jawzi

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ple, pay one dinar to the fire servant who would take her and bathe
her with his index finger.
Mazdak propagated this matter Oewd behavior) during the days
of Qubath. He made it permissible for women to have relations
with whomever they willed, and he (Mazdak) had relations with
Qubath's wives in order for the public to follow his example.
He also allowed people to eat the meat of dead animals.
When Anu Sharwan came to power he abolished Mazdakism.
Zoroastrians believes that Earth had no limit from its bottom (the
down direction), that the sky was built from the devils' flesh, that
thunder was the sound made by the devils trapped in the upper hemispheres.
Scholars said that Zoroastrians used to have holy books, but that
these books were lifted because of what they had introduced into
their religion.
The most amusing of Iblis's deceptions of Zoroastrians was to
convince them that a good doer could never do evil, so this led them
to believe that there were two gods, one god was a wise light that
only did good, and the other was a devil who was darkness and only
did evil acts; just as we previously mentioned regarding Dualists.
Some of them believed The Creator to be ancient and only did
good, and that the devil was recent, and only did evil acts.
We respond to this claim by saying: if you claim that The Light
created The Devil, then that means that The Light created the source
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