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The Devils Deception by Imam Ibn AL-Jawzi

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Chapter Two: Condemning bid' ah (innovation) and mubtadlin (innovators)<br />

"Nor [is there blame] upon those who, when they came<br />

to you that you might give them mounts, you said, 'I can<br />

find nothing for you to ride upon."'<br />

[al-Tawbah (9): 92]<br />

We greeted him and said: We have come to see you to give<br />

healing and obtain benefit from you. Al-'Irbac;I. (ratfryA/lrihu<br />

'anhu) said: One day Allah's Messenger (;i) lead us in prayer,<br />

then faced us and gave us a lengthy exhortation at which the<br />

eyes shed tears and the hearts were afraid. A man said: Messenger<br />

of Allah! It seems as if it is a farewell exhortation, so<br />

what instruction do you give us? He replied: I enjoin you to<br />

fear Allah, and to hear and obey even if it be an A<strong>by</strong>ssinian<br />

slave, for those of you who live after me will see great disagreement.<br />

You must then follow my Sunnah and that of the<br />

rightly-guided Caliphs. Hold to it and stick fast to it. Avoid<br />

novelties, for every novelty is a bid'ah, and every bid'ah is a<br />

form of misguidance.28<br />

29) 'Abdullah <strong>Ibn</strong> Mas'ud (ratfryA//ahu 'anhu) said: Allah's Messenger<br />

(;i) said: "I will be the first among you to reach the flawtj<br />

(water basin). Some men will be prevented from reaching the<br />

flawtj. So I will say: "O Lord! (fhey are) my followers" <strong>The</strong>n it<br />

will be said: You know not what they have innovated (in the<br />

religion) after you."29<br />

30) 'Abdullah <strong>Ibn</strong> Mul).airiz said: '<strong>The</strong> religion will vanish with<br />

one Sunnah at a time, just as a rope breaks one fiber at a time.':JO<br />

2 8 Tirmidhi, 5/43/2676.<br />

29 Bukhari, 11/566/6576 and Muslim, 4/1 796/2297.<br />

30 Abu Nu'aym in al-f:li!Jah, 5/144.<br />

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