Devil's Whispering E-Book

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

• Herausgeber: WS
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 92

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Beschreibung

Allah has informed us about His enemy, Iblis (the Satan), when He asked him why he refused to prostrate to Adam Iblis argued that he was better than Adam, and asked Allah to allow him respite, and He allowed him so. Then Iblis, the enemy of Allah, said: {Because you have sent me astray, surely, I will lie in wait against them (on) Your Straight Path. Then I will come to them from before them and behind them, from their right and from their left, and you will not find most of them thankful ones).
The majority of the Interpreters of the Qur'an have explained that Satan's answer was in an ordered manner to show his determination to conspire against the believers.

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Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Devil's Whispering

Waswasah

Devil's Whispering: Waswasah

By Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Stratagems of the Devil used by the Children of Adam

Satan’s Devilish Insinuations

Niyyah in Taharah and Salaah

Excessive use of water in wudu’ and bathing

Disregarding any waswasah about breaking wudu’

Some acts that show someone to be an innovator in religion

Performing Salaah with shoes on

It is the Sunnah of the Prophet to perform Salaah wherever he was

What is the Sunnah for when Madhiy' touches one’s clothes?

Using stones for purification, and the ruling regarding pus

Carrying Children during Salaah

The Polytheists’ Clothes

Performing Salaah with a little - but not flowing blood

Accepting Food from the People of the Book

The similarity between Polytheism and forbidding what is lawful

Waswasah in Pronouncing Letters

Reply to the Excuses of People Under the Influence of Waswasah

The Ruling Regarding the Doubtful Divorce

Confusion in defining whether clothes are pure or impure

The Confusion of forgetting to pray one Salaah but not knowing which particular one

Waswasah of Ibn ‘Umar in ablution

A reply to those who say that waswasah is better than taking things for granted

Introduction

Bismillah Arrahman Arraheem

All Praise to Allah Who made Himself known to His close slaves, with the quality of His Sublimity and Majesty, and lit their hearts as they witness the Perfection of His Attributes. He has bestowed upon them His Blessings, and so they believed that He is the One, the Self-Sufficient, Who has no partners in His Being,Attributes, or Actions; as He has described Himself.

I testify that there is no god worthy of worship but Allah , Who has no partners, and I testify that Muhammad is His Prophet and Messenger, who was sent as a Mercy to all mankind. He is the best of Allah’s Creation, the Imam of pious people, a burden for the disbelievers, and a proof for all mankind.

The Stratagems of the Devil used by the Children of Adam

Allah has informed us about His enemy, Iblis (the Satan), when He asked him why he refused to prostrate to Adam . Iblis argued that he was better than Adam,and asked Allah to allow him respite, and He allowed him so. Then Iblis, the enemy of Allah, said:(Because you have sent me astray, surely, I will lie in wait against them (on) Your Straight Path. Then I will come to them from before them and behind them,from their right and from their left, and you will not find most of them thankful ones)!

The majority of the Interpreters of the Qur’an have explained that Satan’s answer was in an ordered manner to show his determination to conspire against the believers.

Ibn ‘Abbas said: “The Straight Path is the clear religion of Allah (Islam).” Ibn Masud said: “It means the Book of Allah (the Qur’an).” Jabir bin Abdullaha said: “It is Islam.” And Mujahid said: “It is the truth.”

These are all expressions for one meaning, which is theway to Allah .

Sabrah bin Al-Faakah reported that the Prophet said: “Satan lies in wait for the children of Adam, using all his (devious) ways.”

Ibn ‘Atiyyah’ reported that Ibn ‘Abbas said regarding (Then I will come to them from before them), that Satan would try to influence the children of Adam “in their worldly affairs”. Ali bin Abi Talhah narrated that the above Verse meant “I will make them have doubt in their Hereafter.” This was in agreement with the narration of Al-Hasan , which referred to Satan’s attempting to make them (the believers) deny Resurrection, Paradise and Hell.

Mujahid said: “{Then I will come to them from before them) means, from where they will be able to view (his devilish temptations).”

(and behind them); Ibn ‘Abbas said: “It means: ‘I will make them strongly desire their world of illusion.’” Al-Hasan said: “I will influence them in their worldly affairs, which I would make appear attractive to them.”

Abu Salih said: “It means: ‘I will make them deny the Hereafter, and distance them from it.”

Ibn ‘Abbas also said that it meant “I shall make them doubt the importance of their Deen, and good deeds.”

Al-Hasan said that it meant: “I shall make them refrain from doing good deeds.” (and from their left} Al-Hasan said: “It means: ‘Iwill command them to do evil deeds, which I will make so attractive before their eyes.”

Ibn ‘Abbas was authentically reported as saying:“Satan did not say (from above them) because he knew that Allah is above them.”

Ash-Sha’bi said: “Allah bestowed His Mercy to them from above.”

Qatadah said: “Satan has come to you, O son of Adam,from all directions, except from above. So he could never stand in your way to achieving the Mercy of Allah.”

Al-Wahidi said: “Some people say: “The right stands for good deeds, while the left stands for bad deeds,’ since the Arabs say: ‘Place me on your right, but do not place me on your left”, which means: ‘Make me among your closest people, not among your distant ones.”

Al-Azhari reported, quoting other scholars, that Satan made an oath with the Dignity of Allah , Iblis said: By Your Might, then I will surely mislead them all)’,

misleading them all, so that they deny all that was reported of the outcome of previous civilizations, and the issue of resurrection, and also confuse people in their daily activities.

Other scholars such as, Abu Is’haq and Az-Zamakhshari,(and the word is that of Abu Is’haq) have said: “All these directions were mentioned for greater emphasis, .e.: ‘I will come to them from all directions.’ It could mean, and Allah knows Best, ‘I will make sure they are misled from all directions.”

Az-Zamakhshari said (interpreting the Verse: “I will come to them from all four directions, from which the enemy usually comes.” This is an example of his (the devil’s) whisperings and the extent of his influence upon them. Allah said in another Verse, addressing Satan:(Stir up any of them you can with your voice, and rally against them your cavalry and your infantry)!

Shaqiq said: “Every morning, Satan lies in wait against me in four observatory places: from before me, behind me, my right, and my left, and says: ‘Do not be afraid, for Allah is Most Forgiving, All Merciful.’ So I recite: And verily, I am indeed forgiving to him who repents, believes and does righteous good deeds, and then remains constant in doing them.)’ When Satan comes from behind me, he wants to make me worry about the people I will leave behind (when I die), so I recite: {And no moving (living) creature is there on earth but its provision is due from Allah.}' When Satan comes to me from my right, he comes to stir my desire for women,so I recite: (The Blessed end is for the pious)’ and when he comes from my left, he comes to stir all my desires, so I recite: (And a barrier will be set between them and that which they desire.)}°

I say: “Man follows one of four ways, and none else; he either takes a path on his right, left, in front of him or behind him. On each path, he finds satin lying in wait for him. If man follows any of these paths, while observing the Commands of Allah, he finds Satan laying obstacles against him to stop him from being obedient to Allah .

But if man follows any of those paths to commit sins, Satan will encourage him and provide all the support he needs.

The following Verse supports the comments of our pious scholars, as Allah said: (And We have assigned for them (devils) intimate companions, who have made fair-seeming to them, what was before them and what was behind them.)

Al-Kalbi said (it means): “We confine to them some companions among the devils.”

Muaatil said: “We prepared for them companions among the devils.”

Ibn ‘Abbas said: “What is in front of them (are worldly things), and what is behind them (eternal things of the Hereafter).”

The meaning is: “They made this world fair-seeming to them, until they preferred it to the life of the Hereafter, and even called them to deny it altogether.”

Al-Kalbi said: “They made fair-seeming to them what was before them of the matters of the Hereafter) – that there is no Paradise, no Hell-Fire and no Resurrection.

(and what was behind them of the matters of this world)- their misguidance in this life.”

Ibn Zayd said: “They made all their past evil deeds, and the ones to come, fair-seeming to them.” (i.e. the devil made what they were doing seem so attractive to them, that they did not repent for it, and never intended to give up the bad deeds they were ready to commit).

When Satan, the enemy of Allah said: (Then I will come to them from before them and behind them); he meant in this world and the Hereafter; and when he said: from their right and from their left); he meant ‘the angel of good deeds, on the right, urges his person to do good deeds only, so that the devil would have to approach him/her from that side to impede him/her; while the angel] of bad deeds, on the left, forbids him/her from doing them, so the devil would have to approach from that side to encourage him/her to do so. All this is summed up in the following Verses: «By Your Might, then I will surely mislead them all)! and{They invoke nothing but female deities besides Him (Allah), and they invoke nothing but Satan, a persistent rebel. Allah cursed him. And he (Satan) said: “I will take an appointed portion of your slaves.

Verily, I will mislead them, and surely, I will arouse in them false desires and certainly, I will order them to slit the ears of cattle, and indeed I will order them to change the nature created by Allah.” And whoever takes Satan as a protector (or helper) instead of Allah, has surely suffered a manifest loss. He makes promises to them, and arouses in them false desires, and Satan promises are nothing but deceptions.)

Ad-Dahhak said (it means): “An assumed portion is a known proportion of Allah’s slaves.”

Az-Zajjaj said (it means): “A proportion that I have appointed for myself.”

Al-Fira’ said (it means): “The people over whom he (Satan) was made to have authority; so it is like the assumed proportion.”

I have said: “The reality of the assumption is that it is an estimation, which means that whoever follows Satan and obeys him, becomes among Satan’s appointed proportion of people, who would become his share. For, people are divided into two sections: the followers of Satan, and the followers of the Guidance of Allah .

(then I will surely mislead) away from the truth, and (surely, I will arouse in them false desires and certainly)

Ibn ‘Abbas said: “Satan intends to impede the path to repentance.”

Al-Kalbi said (it means): “Satan will arouse, in them, false desires and certainty, i.e. there is no Paradise, No Hell-Fire or Resurrection.”