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them, little by little. This issue has been reminded of by the fiulamā√
from past times until now.

Al Imām Ibnul Jawzī ﷲا ﻪﲪر (died 597 H) said: “Iblīs has

misled many of the common people by attending assemblies
wherein they deliberately cry… Indeed I know many of people who

have attended those assemblies for many years, crying therein,

pretending to be humble, but their situation does not change in the
slightest, and they still practice usury (moneylending/blood

sucking), cheat within buying and selling, do not know about the

pillars of ṣalāt, always gossiping (talking about the faults of the
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Muslims) and being insubordinate to parents. They are people who

are exposed to the traps of Iblīs (Shaiṭān), and I have seen that they
suppose that attending such assemblies of dhikr and crying therein

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will wipe clean the sins they have committed?!”

Imām Ash Shāṭibī ﷲا ﻪﲪر (died 790 H) has explained that

people who create and take part in group dhikr with one voice, and
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gather together at specific times, are committing bidfiah.

15 Many do not know about the correct manner of ṣalāt, from the beginning takbīr until the
final salām, and moreover many more do not know about the meaning of the shahādatain,
tawḥid ulūhīyah, ʾAsmāfi wa’ṣ Ṣifāt and their consequences. Allāhul Mustafiān – author.
16 Refer, Al Munṭaqa an Nafīs min Talbīs Iblīs li’l ʾImām Ibnil Jawzī, p. 542, by Shaikh fiAlī
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Ḥasan fiAlī fiAbdul Ḥamīd, 1 edition, Dār Ibnil Jawzī, 1410 H.
17 Al Ifitiṣām I/318-321, taḥqīq Shaikh Salīm al Hilālī; refer also to As Sunan wa’l Mubtadafiāt
by fiAmr fiAbdul Mufiim Salīm, pp. 309-313, 1 edition 1420 H, Maktabah fiIbādar Raḥmān.
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