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The Devils Deception by Imam Ibn AL-Jawzi

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T H E D E V I L ' S<br />

D E C E P T I O N S<br />

[ 11:10]<br />

Devil's <strong>Deception</strong> of $iijis in Accompanying<br />

Young Boys<br />

Know that most of the Siifis have barred against themselves the<br />

door of looking at strange women, <strong>by</strong> keeping at a distance from<br />

their company and declining to associate with them. Devotion leaves<br />

them no time for marriage. But association with the young has come<br />

in their way, since the young become aspirants to asceticism. And so<br />

the devil has inclined the Siifis towards them.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re are seven categories of Siifis regarding their accompanying<br />

of young boys:<br />

i. First category: <strong>The</strong> worse of people. <strong>The</strong>y pretend to be Sufts<br />

but adopt the doctrine of pantheism (al-pulti.<br />

Abu Nar 'Abdullah <strong>Ibn</strong> 'AJI al-Sarraj said: I was informed about a<br />

group of pantheists (al-pultil!Jya) who assert that Allah has chosen<br />

certain bodies to inhabit with the ideas of divinity (al-rubtibfyya).<br />

Some of them said that Allah embodies all nice objects.<br />

Abu 'Abdullah <strong>Ibn</strong> J:Iamid said that a group of Sufts claim that<br />

they see Allah in this life in the form of a human, not necessarily<br />

beautiful. <strong>The</strong>y claimed that Allah may manifest Himself in the form<br />

of a black slave-boy.<br />

ii Second category: Those who wear Siifis clothing but have the<br />

intention of committing sins (al-:ftsq).<br />

iii. Third category: Those who claim that it is lawful to gaze on<br />

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