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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 .>ufts<br />

And He (;i) said: "When one of you feels sleepy he should lie<br />

down."266<br />

And when Zaynab (ra4iJA.lltihu 'anhd) extended a rope between<br />

two poles, so that whenever she felt lazy she would hang unto it, the<br />

Prophet (;i) said: "You should work actively until you feel tired,<br />

then you should rest."267<br />

Al-Shibli once shaved his eyebrows and eyelashes on the day of<br />

1d.<br />

And Al-Shibli once saw a handsome boy, so he asked him to leave,<br />

and then said (poetry):<br />

"Had clothes makers wanted to do us good they would have designed<br />

something to cover your handsome face not your body!"<br />

<strong>Ibn</strong> 'Aqil commented: "<strong>The</strong> one who said this poetry has fallen<br />

into error. Allah created the sun to give light, not to be worshiped.<br />

Similarly, this handsome boy was created for people to contemplate,<br />

not for them to become sexually aroused."<br />

And al-Shibli once shaved his beard after seeing his daughter shaving<br />

her head when her son died. He also used to buy expensive clothes<br />

then put them in the fire. And once he burned incense and perfumed<br />

the tail of a donkey.<br />

Another time, he heard a reciter saying:<br />

266<br />

Bukhari 1/271 and Muslim #786.<br />

<br />

"Remain you in it with ignominy"<br />

267 Bukhari 3 /278.<br />

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