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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 $iijis<br />

Section Three:<br />

Crying Out of Excessive Love (shida al-mupabba)<br />

[with beardless men]<br />

Some of them have been convulsed with sickness because of how<br />

much they became in love (with beardless boys).<br />

Abii Iamzah al-$iift said: 1Abdullah <strong>Ibn</strong> Musa was one of the chief<br />

and most eminent $iijis. Looking; one day at a handsome lad in a<br />

street he was overcome and went mad with ardent love. Every day<br />

he would stand in his path in order to see him coming and going.<br />

His infatuation continued so long that ultimately he became so emaciated<br />

that he could not move. He was unable to walk a step. One<br />

day I went to visit him and said to him: Abii Mulammad, what has<br />

happened to you, and what is it that has brought you to your present<br />

condition? Various things, he replied, with which Allah has been<br />

trying me, and which I have not the strength to endure. Many an<br />

offence which a man thinks light is with Allah of the utmost gravity.<br />

One who exposes himself to seeing what is forbidden deserves a<br />

long illness. <strong>The</strong>n he wept. Why, I asked, are you weeping? I fear, he<br />

replied, that I shall suffer long in Hell. I left him, pitying the misery<br />

in which I saw him.<br />

And Muammad <strong>Ibn</strong> 1Abdullah al-Ash1ath al-DimishqI having<br />

looked at handsome boy once, fainted. He was carried to his house,<br />

and so chronic was his ailment that it paralysed his feet, and for a<br />

long time he was unable to stand on them. We visited him repeatedly,<br />

to ask how he was, and what had happened to him; but he<br />

declined to tell us his story and the cause of his illness. People; however,<br />

were talking about his glance. Hearing of this, the boy paid<br />

him a visit; the man brightened up, moved, smiled in the boy's face,<br />

and was cheered <strong>by</strong> the sight of him. <strong>The</strong> boy then repeated his<br />

visits till the man was able to stand on his feet, recovered. <strong>The</strong> boy<br />

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