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
to, then it would be impossible to achieve what they both wish. If
the wish of one of them is fulfilled, then this would prove that the
other is disabled.
As for their claim that the 'light' does good, and 'Dt1Tkness' does
evil. Scholars refuted this by saying: if an oppressed person goes to
seek shade in the darkness, then this would be a good thing that
resulted from an evil entity.
These beliefs are ridiculous so dwelling in discussing such people
must not take place.
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Devil's Deception of the Philosophers (alfaldsefa)
and their Followers
lblis was able to deceive Philosophers by making them have opinions
and intellects that are independent of the teachings of Prophets.
They spoke based on assumptions. Some of them adopted the
opinions of secularists: that the world has no maker. This was attributed
to them by al NiibakhtI.
Yalya lbn Bishr al-Nahawandi said that Aristotle and his followers
claimed that Earth was a planet that is in the hollowness of the
universe. And that each planet has different worlds on it, just as our
Earth has rivers and trees. They denied the Creator, and many of
them affirmed an Ancient Cause and thus claimed that the world is
with no beginning, and that the world had always existed along with
Allah, caused by Him, without a delay in time, just as the causer and
the things caused exit simultaneously. Sunray is caused by the sun,
without any time delay.
We respond to them by asking: Why do you deny that the world
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