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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 $U.fts<br />

except associating with boys, for that is the most terrible of temptations.<br />

More than a hundred times have I vowed to my Lord that I<br />

would associate with no lad, but the beauty of the cheek, the erectness<br />

of the stature, and wide eyes have caused me to break my vow,<br />

yet Allah has never had to question me concerning any sin committed<br />

with them."<br />

This sentiment was expressed in verses:<br />

'<strong>The</strong> rose of the cheek and the eye that appeals,<br />

<strong>The</strong> teeth which the lip like camellias reveals,<br />

<strong>The</strong> locks which no ordered arrangement arrests<br />

As they circle the head, the pomegranate-like breasts<br />

Have left me a victim subdued <strong>by</strong> the fair,<br />

And that is the cause of the name which I bear.'<br />

This man has exposed himself when Allah has kept his affair a<br />

secret. He openly said that each time he is tempted he breaks his<br />

previous repentance (al-tauba). What has become of the $Ufts (alta1awwu/J<br />

resolve of struggling against one's self?<br />

This man thought that committing sodomy was the only sin he<br />

could have committed; had he possessed any knowledge he would<br />

have known that association with them and gazing on them are sinful.<br />

Look at what ignorance does to people.<br />

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