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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 Siifis<br />

A man asked Abu 'Abdullah <strong>Ibn</strong> al-Jala': What is your opinion of<br />

one who travels without provision? He said: This is the action of<br />

Allah's people. <strong>The</strong>n he was asked: What if he dies? He said: <strong>The</strong>n<br />

let he who killed him pay the blood money.<br />

This is the opinion of one who was ignorant of the rulings of<br />

Islam. For there is no difference among the scholars about the unlawfulness<br />

of entering the desert without provision, and that if a<br />

man does this and dies of hunger, he is disobedient to Allah and<br />

deserves to enter Hell.<br />

Similarly if he exposes himself to what is ordinarily fatal, since<br />

Allah has made our lives a deposit with us; saying:<br />

"And do not kill yourselves."<br />

[al-Nisa' (4): 29]<br />

It is enough that such a person defies Allah's order:<br />

And even if one who travels without provision did not violate<br />

this, still he would be disobeying the command of Allah .<br />

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"And take provisions."<br />

[al-Baqarah (2): 197]<br />

Abu 'Abdullah <strong>Ibn</strong> Khafif said: "During my third journey out of<br />

Shiraz I wandered in the desert <strong>by</strong> myself, and hunger which I suffered<br />

caused eight of my teeth to fall out, and so did all of my hair."<br />

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