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The Devils Deception by Imam Ibn AL-Jawzi

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Chapter Eleven: <strong>The</strong> Devil's <strong>Deception</strong> of the $Ujis<br />

and 'to be enamoured ('ishq) of is no more than 'to love (mapabba).'<br />

So al-Qaqi Abii Yacla said: Allah in the opinion, of the pantheists<br />

(pulul[yyah) can be enamoured.<br />

Some pantheists claimed that it was possible for Allah to be<br />

enamored. This is ignorance for several reasons:<br />

First. Linguistically, 'to be enamoured ('ishq)' is only meant for<br />

that which one can have (sexual) relations with.<br />

Second: <strong>The</strong> Attributes ($ifdf) of Allah are known only <strong>by</strong> [the<br />

Qur'an and Sunnah], whence we know that He loves (yupibbu),<br />

but we may not say He is enamoured (ya'shaqu), and He is loved<br />

(yupabbu), not enamoured of (yu'shaqu). Just as it is said that He<br />

knows, but not that He recognises.<br />

Third On what basis did he claim that Allah loves him? This is a<br />

claim without evidence. <strong>The</strong> Prophet () said: A man who says<br />

he is in Paradise is really in Hell.<br />

'Amr al-MakkI said: I used to walk with al-J:Iusayn <strong>Ibn</strong> Maniir in<br />

some of the streets of Makkah, while I recited the Qur'an; hearing<br />

my recitation he said: I could myself say the like of that. I left him as<br />

a result.<br />

Muhammad <strong>Ibn</strong> Yahya al-Razi said: I heard 'Amr <strong>Ibn</strong> 'Uthman<br />

cursing al-J:Iallaj and saying: Were I able, I would kill him with my<br />

own hand. I said: How has he angered the shaikh? He replied: I<br />

recited a text of Allah's Book and he said I could say or compose<br />

and utter the like of this.<br />

Abu Bakr <strong>Ibn</strong> Mimshad related as follows: <strong>The</strong>re was a man present<br />

with us in Dinawar with a sack from which he would not part night<br />

or day; the sack was examined and there was found therein a letter<br />

of al-J:Iallaj addressed from the Merciful the Clement to So-and-so<br />

son of So-and-so. It was sent to Baghdad, and J:Iallaj was summoned<br />

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