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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 $itfts<br />

the food he had just eaten came from a doubtful source. And righteous<br />

people never accepted a gift from an oppressor, or from someone<br />

who collected his wealth from doubtful means. In fact, some of<br />

the Salaf rejected their friends' gifts just to be on the safe side.<br />

Al:imad <strong>Ibn</strong> I:Ianbal said regarding a certain narrator: He was a<br />

good man except for one bad trait. He did not used to care whose<br />

gifts he used to accept.<br />

A Sufi once gave advice to a leader who was an oppressor, so the<br />

leader gave him some money which the Sit.ft accepted. So the leader<br />

said: All of us are fishermen, but the nets we use differ.<br />

Why are these people drawn toward worldly things so much? <strong>The</strong><br />

Prophet (:i) said: "<strong>The</strong> upper (giving) hand is better than the lower<br />

(taking) hand."163<br />

Early $ufts used to investigate the source of the money and food<br />

they used to receive. As for $itfts of our days, if you look into their<br />

affairs you will be surprised.<br />

Once I visited one of these tents and was told that the Shaikh<br />

went to visit a leader to congratulate him for a grant he had received.<br />

I knew that particular leader was an oppressor, so I said: "Isn't it<br />

enough that you have opened the store?! Did you have to go around<br />

carrying your merchandise on your heads?! You do not attempt to<br />

earn a living despite your ability to do so, you rely on charity and<br />

gifts, you accept money from anyone, and now you go around visiting<br />

oppressors seeking their gifts and congratulating them for money<br />

they had gained unlawfully. By Allah! You are most harmful to Islam."<br />

163<br />

BukharI 3/265 and Muslim #1042.<br />

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