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The Devils Deception by Imam Ibn AL-Jawzi

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Chapter Ten: Devil's <strong>Deception</strong> ( the Ascetics and the W'orshipers<br />

rogance in his heart will not enter Paradise.m44<br />

It was the habit of early Salaf to go out for shopping. Like many<br />

things, this habit changed with time. However, in my opinion, a<br />

scholar must not go out for shopping nowadays, because this will<br />

cause the laypeople not to give him high status.<br />

Not everything that the Salaf used to do must be done now. Especially,<br />

things that did not cause people's hearts to change, but do<br />

today.<br />

Al-Awza'i said: We used to laugh and joke, but when we became<br />

examples followed <strong>by</strong> others we stopped doing so.<br />

Once Ibrahim <strong>Ibn</strong> Adham and his students were joking with each<br />

other when a man knocked at the door. Ibrahim ordered his company<br />

to stop joking with each other and to be silent. <strong>The</strong>y said: Are<br />

you teaching us to showoff?! He replied: I hate for others to disobey<br />

Allah because of you.<br />

What he feared was for the laypeople to say: Look at what those<br />

ascetic people do. Laypeople do not withstand seeing such behavior<br />

from worshippers.<br />

144 Bukhari and Muslim.<br />

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