The Devils Deception by Imam Ibn AL-Jawzi

T H E D E V I L ' S
D E C E P T I O N S
We respond: How could you have known this when you deny all
that generates knowledge. Perhaps the person to whom we are talking
now is not the same person we spoke to earlier.
[ 5:2 ]
Devil's Deception of the Secularists (al-dhari_yyah)
Iblis has deceived many people to believe that there is no god or
creator, and that all things came to existence without a maker. These
people denied Allah's existence because they failed to sense Him
with their senses, and failed to use their intellect to recognise Him.
Could any person with a sound mind doubt the existence of a maker?
If a person passes by a piece of land with no buildings, then returned
to find a wall built there, he would realise that there must
have been a builder who built the wall.
This wide expanse (earth), this raised ceiling (the sky), these amazing
buildings and these running laws that imply wisdom, do not they
prove the existence of a creator?! A desert-Arab once said: "Truly
the camel extract points to (the existence of) a camel, so an upper
structure that is this pleasant, and a lower center that is this dense;
do not they point to al-La!if (the One Who is above All Comprehension),
al-Khabir (the One Most Acquainted will Things). In fact,
if a person only contemplates over himself, that would be enough
of a proof. The human body contains wisdoms that may not be
compiled in a book."
He who ponders on the sharpness of teeth to enable it to chop
(food), the flatness of molars to grind (food), the tongue that rotates
what.is being chewed, the liver that ripens food, how nutrition
flows to each part of the body as needed, these fingers that have
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