Devils
group · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
الشياطين · abālisah · al-shayāṭīn · devils · satans · shayāṭīn · the devils · الابالسة · شياطين
in the texts
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
The shayāṭīn, invoked as the type of vicious character and as the true classification of self-interested scholars.
[49] (1) What is meant by the learned are those who act upon their knowledge, not such as praise and blame for a personal end;
and be loving, that you not be a mine for the characters of devils;
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The devils, abālisah and shayāṭīn: rivals of the angels for the departing soul, companions of vicious souls, and authors of the fourth class of false dreams.
the work of the devils, in most conditions, is to make people imagine things (4) in dreams, and to contrive to make them transgress by means toward which their intellects yearn.
And as for the one that is (4) the reverse of the one mentioned (5), here it fraternises with the devils and the satans, and there it descends to the lowest of the low ».
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
The devils, named as the other alleged channel of the diviners' claimed inspiration.
and they are nothing but the practitioners of a craft, like the blacksmiths and the carpenters and others, and our ignorance of their craft does not support their claim — such as their pretence that they are in league with the Knower of all hidden things, and that it is He who inspires them with this knowledge by means of the angels or the devils, according to the compact between them and Him.