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The Devils Deception by Imam Ibn AL-Jawzi

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T H E D E V I L ' S<br />

D E C E P T I O N S<br />

man mentioned l:Iamdan's village. l)amdan said to him: You had<br />

better mount one of the herd or you will be tired. -<strong>The</strong> man replied:<br />

I have not been ordered to do so. Apparently then (said l:Iamdan)<br />

you only act under orders. <strong>The</strong> man said, Yes. -<strong>The</strong>n <strong>by</strong> whose order<br />

(asked l:lamdan) do you act? He said: By the orders of my master<br />

and yours, the master of this world and the next. You mean (said<br />

Uamdan), the Lord of the worlds. You are right, he replied. <strong>The</strong>n<br />

what (asked l:Iamdan) is your purpose in the village whither you are<br />

making? I have been ordered (he replied) to call its inhabitants from<br />

ignorance to knowledge, from error to guidance, from misery to<br />

happiness; to rescue them from the a<strong>by</strong>sses of degradation and poverty,<br />

and put them in possession of what will render them independent<br />

of toil. Hamdan said to him: Rescue me (may Allah rescue<br />

you!) and shed on me such light as will vivify me; how much I need<br />

the like thereof! I have no orders (the man replied) to divulge the<br />

hidden mystery to anyone till I have confidence in him and can covenant<br />

with him. State your covenant (said Hamdan) for it will be<br />

binding on me. It is (said the man) that you shall give me and the<br />

sovereign an oath <strong>by</strong> Allah that you will not divulge the secret of<br />

the sovereign which I will communicate to you or my secret either.<br />

l:Iamdan took the oath, and the missionary proceeded to instruct<br />

l:lamdan in the various departments of his nescience, till he had led<br />

him quite astray and obtained his assent. l)amdan then himself became<br />

a missionary and indeed one of the founders of the heresy;<br />

and his followers were called Qaramitiyyah or Qaramitah. His functions<br />

were inherited <strong>by</strong> his family and his descendants, one of the<br />

most energetic among them being a certain Abu Sa'id, who came<br />

forward in the year 286, became mighty, slaughtered innumerable<br />

victims, destroyed Masjids, burned Qur'ans, assaulted the pilgrims,<br />

and made laws for his family and his companions, to whom he told<br />

various absurdities. When he went to battle he would say that he had<br />

been promised victory at this hour. When he died, a dome was built<br />

over his tomb, at the top of which they placed a bird made of gyp-<br />

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