THE DEVIL’S DECEPTION (TALBIS IBLIS)* (Episode 9)

 Muslims Till Death:

AS SALAAMU ALAYKUM WARAHMATULLAH WABARAKAATUHU . LET'S START TONIGHT'S EDUCATION. OUR TOPIC IS 👇.                                                                            *THE  DEVIL’S DECEPTION (TALBIS IBLIS)* (Episode 9)                                                                                                                                                                                              Tuesday 19th May 2026. 2 Dhu’l-hi'jjah 1447 AH

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Yã Ibn Adam!

Do you have the responsibility to lead?

Do you have the responsibility to manage the goods and affairs of muslims ?

Know that Allaah will surely question you about this. So be aware of this and let not Iblis fool you into his suggestions Yã Oukhty wa yã Akhy !


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*May Allaah prevent us from being unjust leaders*
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▫️ *Practicing injustice and helping to oppress people*
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Among the important devil's deceptions of the Governors and Sovereigns, Ibn Al-Jawzi  (رحمه الله) also mentioned their injustice.

(🔹)Some leaders of our community appoint those who have no knowledge or piety to rule over people. This causes people to make du'a against them because of their appointees' oppression of them.
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Yhese appointees force them to conduct unlawful transactions and punishes those undeserving to be punished, all the while believing that the one appointed will carry their sins for them.

This is a very big deception of Iblis. In fact, If the Zakat collector appoints those who waste the money that they are supposed to distribute, then the collector is liable.

(🔹) Iblis persuades some of them to spend money excessively; believing that they control this money.
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Someone who excessively spends from his own money ought to be restrained, so how about someone who was hired to preserve the wealth of others? He should only earn money in return for his job, without excessiveness.

Iblis might also deceive them not to give money to those who deserve it.

(🔹)Iblis deceives them to be liberal on committing sins. He persuades them that their efforts in preserving peace will prevent them from punishment.
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(🔹) Iblis convinces them that if they give charity after acting upon their anger, then the latter would erase the former. He whispers to them: "one dirham of charity erases ten dirhams of anger."

This cannot be true, because the sin of acting upon anger stays.
And if the charity money were initially gained unlawfully then charity would not be accepted.

Furthermore, even if charity were given from lawful money, it would not erase the sin of acting upon anger, because giving a poor person charity does not relieve the liability of oppression.
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(🔹) Iblis convinces some of them that visiting righteous people and asking them to pray for them will reduce the punishment for the sins they have committed. This good deed does not repel that bad deed.

And how can the du'a of a single person be accepted while thousands of oppressed people are making du'a against them?

(🔹). Some governing (authorities) encourage leaders to oppress others, believing that the sin will fall on the leader, not on him. This is totally false because he has assisted in committing the oppression.
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Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar (رضي الله عنه): _*"The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Allaah has cursed wine, its drinker, its server, its seller, its buyer, its presser, the one for whom it is pressed, the one who conveys it, and the one to whom it is conveyed."*_
[Sunan Abi Dawud 3674]

In another hadeeth, Jaabir (رضي الله عنه) reported that: _*"The Messenger of Allaah (ﷺ) cursed the one who consumes riba and the one who pays it, the one who writes it down and the two who witness it, and he said: they are all the same."*_
[Muslim 1598]

How can they pretend not to be liable when they help the leader in oppressing people?.
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*THE DEVIL’S DECEPTION OF LAYPEOPLE*
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▫️ *Devils's Deception of Wealthy People (ashãb al-amwãl)*
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Ibn Al-Jawzi  (رحمه الله) mentioned four shapes taken by Iblis deceptions regarding wealthy people.

🔹. Not caring of the method by which they gain wealth.

Usury has become prevalent in financial dealings, and people became accustomed to it. Most dealings do not enjoy the approval of all scholars.
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🔹. Stinginess and not paying the due zakãt because of reliance on Allaah's forgiveness.

Some of them give part of the due zakãh and believe that it will suffice. And others use deceptive techniques in order not to pay it. For example, they might give their wealth as a gift before owning it for an entire year, and then they take it back later.
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Others overestimate their charity, so they would give a poor person a garment that is only worth two dinars but count it as a ten dinar of zakãh. Others give charity from the lowest quality of what they own. Others among them give an annual salary to an employee and count it as zakãh.

Others give the due zakãh in full. Iblis whispers to them that they are in no need to give any more voluntary charity. So they miss out on the reward, and they die before enjoying spending their money.
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End of Today's Education. Subhanakallahuma wabihamdik ash-Hadu an laaila Ilan Anta astagfiruka wa atuuubu ilayhi. We shall continue on this topic on tomorrow in Sha Allah*. *Questions, problems and complaints on this program are welcome privately*. May HE strengthen and make us steadfast in faith. May HE accept our ibaadat and grant us the Good in this World and the Hereafter. May Allah Azza wa jalla forgive and grant us Jannah...AMIN.