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The Devils Deception by Imam Ibn AL-Jawzi

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Chapter Ten: Devil's <strong>Deception</strong> ef the Ascetics and the Worshipers<br />

tenance, seeking knowledge and performing religious obligations?<br />

What is condemned is to remove things from where they belong,<br />

or to use things excessively with rowdiness, and not as dictated <strong>by</strong><br />

religion.<br />

We were prohibited from living in seclusion on a mountain. <strong>The</strong><br />

Prophet (;i) forbade from building a house in seclusion.142 Abandoning<br />

congregation andjumm'ah prayers is a loss not a gain, and to<br />

abandon scholars and not to seek knowledge is utter ignorance. And<br />

departing from parents is a form of ingratitude towards them which<br />

is a major sin.<br />

As for those who went towards mountains for seclusion, perhaps<br />

they had no children or parents, otherwise they have committed<br />

something wrong.<br />

Some of the Salaf said: We were on our way to worship on a mountain<br />

when Sufyan al-Thawri saw us and asked us to return back.<br />

142<br />

Musnad A1mad, #5650 on the authority of lbn 'Umar (rat#yAl/dhu 'anhuma).<br />

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