The Devils Deception by Imam Ibn AL-Jawzi

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on them here.
Section five:
Many an atheist with hatred of Islam in his heart has come out,
worked hard, exerted himself and made plausible pretensions with
which to confront his followers. The hidden purpose in belief was
to wriggle out of the net of Islam, and in action to enjoy pleasures
and to make lawful forbidden things. Some of them have obtained
the pleasures at which they aimed, only after murdering people and
doing grievous harm like Babak the Khurramite and the Qarmatians,
and the leader of the Zamj who rebelled and seduced the black slaves,
promising them the kingdom. Others while persisting in their misleading
lost both this world and the next, like lbn al-RawandI and al­
Ma'arrI. lbn al-RawandI used to accompany Rafiqah and atheists and
when he used to get reprimanded for doing so, he used to say: I only
wish to learn their teachings.
Whoever studies the case of lbn al-RawandI finds him a leader of
heretics. Later he wrote a book ''Al-Ddmigh" (the destroyer) claiming
that it destroyed Islam. Glory to He who destroyed him and
took his life while he was in his youth. He used to claim that the
Qur'an had contradictions and lacked eloquence.
As for Abu'l-'Ala, his poems make no secret of their heresy; he
went to all lengths in his hatred of the Prophets, but all through
floundered about in his attempts to mislead, being afraid of execution,
till he died in his destitution.
There will always be people like this, however, recently their light
has dwindled by Allah's Praise. There only remain such Batinis who
hide themselves, and such pretenders to philosophy as conceal their
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