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64 Is Rumism A Threat?

Our Prophet (pbuh) commanded: "God would not look at the
face of those who come with lust to men (expels them from
His Mercy)" (Kutub al-Sittah, Hadith no:1607, Narrated by Ibn-
Abbas; At-Tirmidhi, Rada 12, 1165)

Some circles claim that these stories have been placed in Masnavi in

order to let people draw lessons while preaching religion. That is an
extremely insincere explanation. Never in history has a scholar of Islam
preached so many perverted, unlawful stories that are in complete contra-
diction with the Qur'an. The stories are a means of not preaching religion,
but on the contrary supposedly legalizing the acts that God has deemed
unlawful.

1.Story of a child frightened by a corpulent man

A huge man found a child alone one night.

What did he want? The child grew pale with fright.

'Now rest assured, my handsome boy,' he said,

'That you will mount on top of me instead.

View me as impotent, though I am strong;

Ride me as if a camel—come along!'

In form a man, but twisted actually,

Outwardly human, devilish inwardly.

(Rumi The Masnavi, Oxford World Classics, Book II, Translation by Jawid
Mojaddedi, Couplets 3167-3170, p.185)