The Devils Deception by Imam Ibn AL-Jawzi

Chapter Eleven: The Devil's Deception ef the iifts
Had it not been for my loyalty to previous friends,
I would have unbleached my iron tongue at them,
Why do they ask to have good relations with me while
I am rejecting them,
He is generous in his friendliness,
but I am stingy with mine,
When they see me they pretend to cry out of mercy,
while the flames of their spite are fueled,
This is because I have abandoned the claimers,
had they been honest I would have not been far"
Al-iir"i said: Some of my Shaikhs said this (poetry) to me:
"True iifts have vanished,
iifts has become a joke,
It turned into a yell,
a trance and food,
Yourself has lied to you,
this is not the proper path."
And Abii Isl).aq al-Shiraz! told some of them (in poetry):
"I conside the generation of ai-tawwuf
to be the worst of generations,
so give them unserious solutions,
Has the Lord whom you have adored ordered you
to eat like cattle and dance to him?!"
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