The Devils Deception by Imam Ibn AL-Jawzi

T H E D E V I L ' S
D E C E PTI O N S
Those collectors of wealth are of two types:
Some of them claim to be ascetic in spite of having so much money.
So their claims would go against their reality.
Others pretend to be poor and continue to collect money. They
prevent the more deserving poor people from collecting zakdh.
[ 11 :6 ]
Devil's Deception of the $iijis in Matters of
their Clothing
When early Siifis heard that the Prophet (;i) used to patch his
clothes, and that 'Umar (rm}tyAlltihu 'anhu) used to have patches in
his clothes and that Uwais al-QarnI used to look in the garbage for
patches for his clothes, they decided to wear patched clothes.164
In doing so, they have used wrong comparisons. Allah's Messenger
(;I) and his Companions preferred to be ascetic and to be away
from worldly affairs. They were also poor. Maslamah Ibn 'Abdu'l­
Malik asked Fatimah, the wife of 'Umar Ibn 1Abdu'l-1Aziz to wash
her husband's dirty shirt, so she said: By Allah! He does not own
another shirt.
If neither poverty nor the intention of being ascetic is the reason,
then there is no sense in wearing patched clothes.
164 Musnad A}:imad 6/106, #121, #126, #167, #241, #260.
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