EVEN IF THE SHAYTĀN INVITES YOU TO THE FIRE?

 

EVEN IF THE SHAYTĀN INVITES 

YOU TO THE FIRE?

One's love for something makes him deaf and blind, and mankind is naturally disposed to love themselves, so they only see the good in themselves and the bad in their adversaries. This ignorance is often paired with desire and oppression, because mankind is naturally oppressive and ignorant. 

Most of mankind's religions are only customs and traditions of beliefs and disbeliefs, love and hate, and allegiance and enmities taken from their fathers and predecessors. Just as He, the Most High, said:

{ وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمُ ٱتَّبِعُوا۟ مَآ أَنزَلَ ٱللَّهُ قَالُوا۟ بَلْ نَتَّبِعُ مَا وَجَدْنَا عَلَيْهِ ءَابَآءَنَآ أَوَلَوْ كَانَ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنُ يَدْعُوهُمْ إِلَىٰ عَذَابِ ٱلسَّعِيرِ }

And when it is said to them: "Follow that which Allah has sent down", they say: "Nay, we shall follow that which we found our fathers (following)." 

(Would they do so) even if the Shaytān invites them to the torment of the Fire?

Book: The Principle of Love & Desire

By Shaykhul-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah 

Translated by Ihsan Gonsalves 

Authentic Statements Publications

P. 192, 193

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