TRAPS OF IBLEES {7 of 7}"
From At-Tafseer Al-Qayyim of Shaikh Ibn Al-Qayyim

THE FIRST EVIL IS THE EVIL OF KUFR AND SHIRK and enmity to Allaah (SWT) and His
Messenger (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam). If he gains this from the son of
Adam, his moaning is eased, and he rests from his ordeal with this man. Further,
this is the first thing Iblees wants from the worshipper (al-'Abd). If Iblees
gains this, he makes this person part of his army, one of his soldiers, and he
appoints him as a deputy or agent against other human beings. Then, this person
becomes one of the deputies or callers of Iblees.


TRAPS OF IBLEES {2 of 7}

From At-Tafseer Al-Qayyim of Shaikh Ibn Al-Qayyim

If Iblees despairs of enticing a person with the first evil, and if this person
is one of those for whom it was written that he would be a Muslim in his
mother's womb, Iblees tries the SECOND CLASS OF EVIL. THIS IS BID'AH
(innovation). Iblees loves Bid'ah more than debauchery and disobedience because
the harm of Bid'ah is in the essence of the religion. Moreover, it is an
unrepentable sin {1} and is against the call of the messengers and is a call to
a message different from the one conveyed by Ar-Rasool. Bid'ah is a gate to Kufr
and Shirk. Therefore, if Iblees gains the performance of Bid'ah from a person
and makes him one of the people of Bid'ah, he also becomes one of his agents and
a caller of his.

Notes:
{1} Bid'ah is unrepentable from the angle that the person who does it thinks he
is gtting closer to Allah, so he thinks there is nothing wrong with it, and
hence he will not repent.


TRAPS OF IBLEES {4 of 7}

From At-Tafseer Al-Qayyim of Shaikh Ibn Al-Qayyim

If Iblees is unable to snare Al-'Abd at this degree he moves him to the FOURTH
CLASS, or the MINOR SINS. These sins may ruin a person if they accumulate. That is why Ar-Rasool
(sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) said, Be aware of the minor sins, because the simile of the minor sin is
like
the people who went to a desert. Then he (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) mentioned a Hadeeth the
meaning
of which is that every one of them brought a stick of wood until they had kindled a huge fire (just as
the
minor sins add up little by little until they become a major sin). The person continues taking the
matter of
minor sins easily until he considers them inconsequential. Therefore, a person who commits major sins
but fears their effect is in a better condition than he is.


TRAPS OF IBLEES {5 of 7}"
Taken from At-Tafseer Al-Qayyim of Shaikh Ibn Al-Qayyim

If the slave of Allah has prevented Iblees from trapping him at the fourth level, he moves him to the
fifth level. The FIFTH LEVEL IS TO OCCUPY HIM WITH PERMISSIBLE THINGS that do not gain
him reward or punishment. However, the punishment of this level is caused by passing the reward
missed by being occupied with these deeds.



TRAPS OF IBLEES {6 of 7}

Taken from At-Tafseer Al-Qayyim of Shaikh Ibn Al-Qayyim

If the slave of Allaah has kept Iblees from succeeding at the fifth level, and if he is careful about his
time, being
covetous with it, knows the value of moments, and knows the value of what comes of comfort or
torment, Iblees
transfers him to the sixth level. The SIXTH LEVEL is to OCCUPY HIM WITH DEEDS OF LESSER REWARD
to keep virtue away from him and to prevent him from attaining the reward of the favoured deed.

Therefore, he orders him to do a good action with less reward if that includes leaving a better action.
Very few
people are aware of this. Because if a person feels a strong urge to some kind of obedience, he does
not doubt
that it is true obedience and that he is getting closer to Allaah (SWT). He never thinks that this call
is from Iblees
because he believes that Iblees never calls one to do good. Therefore, he thinks that this call is from
Allaah (SWT).
Actually he is excused because he never knew that Iblees would call one to seventy doors of good
deeds either to
get him to one door of evil or to let a better deed than these seventy deeds pass away from him.

This cannot be known except by a light from Allaah (SWT), a light he instils in the heart of the slave.
The source of
this type of knowledge is following the way of Ar-Rasool (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) and taking care
of the levels
of deeds with Allaah (SWT), the deeds of His favoured ones, the deeds more pleasing to Him, and
those more
beneficial to the slave, and deeds that have more Naseehah (guidance) from Allaah (SWT), His
Rasool, His Book,
and His believing worshippers. No one has this type of knowledge except the inheritors of Ar-Rasool
(sallallaahu
'alaihi wa sallam), his deputies in the 'Ummah, and his successors on earth. In addition, most of the
creation is
screened from this. This call does not come to their hearts. Allaah (SWT) gives His favour to
whomever He wills
from among His worshippers.

TRAPS OF IBLEES {7 of 7}

Taken from At-Tafseer Al-Qayyim of Shaikh Ibn Al-Qayyim

If the slave of Allaah prevents Iblees from trapping him at any of the first six levels, and if it becomes
difficult for Iblees,
he empowers his party of jinn and human beings with different kinds of harm: IMPUTING DISBELIEF
TO HIM,
CALLING HIM MISGUIDED AND AN INNOVATOR, WARNING PEOPLE AGAINST HIM. He does this
intending to
weaken him and to disturb his heart. Iblees, by using this method, tries to confuse this person's
thinking and tries to
PREVENT PEOPLE FROM BENEFITING FROM HIM. Therefore Iblees expends his utmost effort to
empower the
defenders of falsehood, from human beings and from jinn, against him. Thus the believer is at war
until death. Whenever
he gives up, he is hurt or is taken captive. Hence the believer is in Jihad until he meets with Allaah
(SWT).







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