Intellectual
Diabolism
by Abu Muhammed edited from Diabolik Intelektual*
Diabolise is an old Latin word, which means Satan, this
as mentioned by A. Jeffery in his book: “The Foreign Vocabulary of the Quran”
published by Baroda in 1938 pages 48. The meaning of diabolism can also be interpreted
as an ideology, attitude or salvation to someone. In the Holy Quran it has been
said that Satan is part of the Jinns (18:50: “Behold! We said to the angels,
“Prostrate to Adam”: they prostrated except Iblis. He was one of the Jinns, and
he broke the command of his Lord. Will ye then take him and his progeny as
protectors rather than Me? And they are enemies to you! Evil would be the
exchange for the wrong-doers!” ), which was created by the element of fire
(15:27: “And the Jinn race, We had created before, from the fire of a scorching
wind”).
As we all know, Satan was cursed and driven away
from the paradise due to his disobedient of the God command to prostray to
Adam. But does this mean that Satan is an atheist?, no, or does it mean that
the devil is an agnostic? no either. Satan doesn’t deny the existence of God,
or has any doubt on the Oneness of God; Satan knew the God and believes in God
hundred percent, but why doesn’t Satan been cursed and been categorized as an
agnostic?, here is the core of the problem.
Knowing and understanding is not sufficient enough,
believing and confessing will not justified either. Those who are agnostic
amongst the people of the books do believe and knew the Prophet peace be upon
Him dearly the way the parents knew their children (ya’rifunahu kama
ya’rifuna abna’ahum”, but still they wouldn’t want to submit and
surrendered to Islam.
It is crystal clear that knowledge, belief and
confession should be attached closely with obedience and salvation and follow
by one’s willingness of obeying and performing sincerely what has been
commanded upon. Professor Naquid has said: “Knowledge
and recognition should be followed by acknowledgement and submission”
Satan Characters
The mistake that the devil/satan made is not
because of the ignorant or lack of knowledge, but the main reason is due to Satan refused (abaa) of God
command, as stated in the following verses:
(1). 2:34: “And behold, We said to the angels:
“Bow down to Adam:” and they bowed down: Not so Iblis: he refused
and was arrogant: He was of those who reject Faith”, (2). 15:31: “Not so
Iblis: he refused to be Among those who prostrated themselves”,
(3). 20:116: “When We said to the angels, “Prostrate yourselves to Adam”,
They prostrated themselves, but not Iblis: he refused.”
And Satan arrogance/haughty
(istakbara) as stated in the following verses 2:34, 38:73, 38:75:
(1). 2:34: “And behold, We said to the angels:
“Bow down to Adam:” and they bowed down: Not so Iblis: he refused and was haughty:
He was of those who reject Faith”,
(2). 38:74: “Not so Iblis: he was haughty,
and became one of those who reject Faith”
(3). 38:75: “(Allah) said: “O Iblis! What prevents
thee from prostrating thyself to one Whom I have created with my hands? Art thou
haughty? Or art thou one of the high (and mighty) ones?
And Satan dispute (fasik) on the command of
God (fasaqa an amri rabbihi,) as said in verse 18:50:
(1). 18:50: “Behold! We said to the angels,
“Prostrate to Adam”: they prostrated except Iblis. He was one of the Jinns, and
he broke the command of his Lord. Will ye then take him and his
progeny as protectors rather than Me? And they are enemies to you! Evil would
be the exchange for the wrong-doers!”
In this situation the devil is not alone, there a lot
of peoples recruited as staffs and crony, they acted and behaved precisely like
theirs master. (refused, arrogant and dispute) Satan is a prototype
intellectual , as mentioned in the Holy Quran, just after been condemned, the
devil seek for his life to be spare and pro-long, and it has been granted for a
period of time, and he made a promised to force others to his path in whatever
ways possible. As mentioned verses in 17:64 & 65, which said:
And
Arouse those whom thou canst among them, with thy (seductive) voice, make
assaults on them with thy cavalry and thy infantry, mutually share with them
wealth and children, and make promise to them, but satan promises them nothing
but deceit,(65) “As for My servants, No authority shalt thou have over them”
Enough is thy Lord for a Disposer of affairs
The Satan was so ambitious: “He said: “Because thou Hast thrown me out (of the way) , lo! I will
Lie in wait for them on Thy Straight Way,” (17) “Then will I assault them from
before them and behind them, from their right and their left, nor wilt thou
find, in most of them gratitude (for thy mercies)”. (QS 7: 16 & 17),
al-Maktabah al-As riyyah, 1995, vol. 2, pg. 190).
From the verses above, Ibnu Abas r.a said that, Satan
had determine to deviate others and spread suspicion, making mankind suspicious
and forget to the hereafter, felt allergy and anti towards goodness and truth,
inclined and mad toward materialist in this world, it became an hobby and
ignorant toward sins, suspicious and confuse toward the religion. (Ibn Katsir
Tafsir Al Quran)
It is not difficult to identify intellectual with
the mentality of Satan, this is because there is enough criteria which the Holy
Quran has explained, which are as follows:
(1).
Always opposes and make an objection
As said (QS: 6:121): “Eat not of (meats) on
which Allah’s name hath not been pronounced: that would be impiety, but the
satans ever inspire their friends to contend with you if ye were to obey them,
ye would indeed be pagans.”
Even though they knew, acknowledge and understood,
but they will never want to accept the truth, just like Fir’aun with his army,
“Zulman wa ‘uluwwan”, even if in their heart they confess and
believe (wa istayqanat-ha anfusuhum)
These group will always argue and try to dispute
and oppose the truth for the sake of defending their opinion, this is because
for them the important expect is not the truth, but how to make it be the truth.
Therefore it is not that they don’t know the true was, but it is because they
didn’t want to follow and acknowledge to the truth. So don’t be surprise when
there will always be an intellectual who confess to be muslim, but had this
kind of attitude in them. To them their wild ideology and opinion is more
important to be defended rather than seeking the truth and protecting their
faith in Islam.
In the tradition of Islamic jurisprudence, this
attitude of disputing the truth is also name as “Al ‘Inadiyyah” (see:
Abu Hafs Najmuddin Umar ibn Muhammad an-Nasafi (w.537H / 1142M), al-‘Aqa’id in
Majmu min Muhimmat al Mutun, Cairo: al-Matba’ah al-Khayriyyah, 1306H, pg 19)
(2). The Diabolic Intellectual has the
attitude of arrogant.
The meaning of arrogant is very clear from the
Prophet peace be upon Him saying, which has been narrated by Imam Muslim (no.
147): “Al-kibru batarul-haqq wa ghamtu n-nas” which means: Arrogance is to oppose the truth and to
trifle others
The outcome (for them) will be, for those who
follow the truth as mentioned in the Holy Quran and the narration from the
Prophet peace be upon Him, will be considered as dogmatic or literalistic.
But to the contrary, for those who has the liberal
thinking, and who are relativistic and sceptic in slandering the Holy Quran and
the sunnah, disputed and opposed the truth, they are the one who will be admire
as an intellectual who are considered as the most critic, reformism and so for,
even though they had been proved to be atheist, heretic and have the mentality
of the Satan.
They have two faces, and used the standardise
attitude, as mentioned in the Holy Quran (QS 2:14) which said: “Of a surety, they are the ones who makes
mischief, but they realize (it) not”, they considered the believer as ignorant,
but in reality they are the ones who are dull and stupid (sufaha’). This group
of intellectuals who are the ones that has been threaten by Allah in the Holy
Quran (7:146) : “Those who behave arrogantly on the earth in defiance of
right-them will I turn away from My Signs. Even if they see all the Signs, they
will not believe in them, and if they see the way of right conduct, they will not
adopt it as the Way, but if they see the way of error, that is the Way they
will adopt, for they have rejected Our Signs, and failed to take warning from
them”.
(3). The
third criteria is they will try to blur and conceal the truth, (talbis wa
kitman al-haqq).
This diabolic intellectual knew what is the truth
and what is falsehood, but they deliberately twist and turn the data and the
fact. The falsehood were polished and decorated to the extent that they looked precisely
like the truth.
Where else the truth has been cut and disfigure
until it looked illegal and unlawful, or the two (legal and illegal) has been
mixed together until it became ambiguous and couldn’t be differentiate between
the two. This strategy is the most effective way to make others felt confused
and disoriented.
Some of the example that has been done by the group
who support iklusivisme and pluralism in religion is that they select verses
from the Holy Quran (2:62 and 5:69) (2:62“Those who believe (in the Quran)
and those who follow the Jewish (scriptures) and the Christians and the
Sabians, any who believe in Allah and the last day and work righteousness shall
have their Reward with their Lord on them shall be no fear, nor shall they
grieve”) (5:69“Those who believe (in the Quran) those who follow the
Jewish (scriptures) and the Sabians and the Christians, any who believe in
Allah and the last day and work righteousness , on them shall be no fear , nor
shall they grieve”) to justify their
wild ideology that all religions are the same, and ignore the context of siyaq,
sibaq and lihaq or the interpretation bi l-ma’tsur from the verses.
It is the same that has been done by the western orientalise
in their research toward the Holy Quran and the Hadist, they questioned and
exaggerated minor issues, they created ambiguity to something which is obvious and
clear, and try to distorted and
manipulated (tahrif) the existing references. This is not too surprised, as
majority amongst them are the Jewish and the Christian, as their character has
been clarify in the Holy Quran 3:71 :”Ya ahla l-kitab lima talbisuna
l-haqq bi-batil wa taktumu l-haqq wa antum ta’lamun?” ( Ye people of
the book! Why do ye clothe truth with falsehood and conceal the truth while ye
have knowledge?”) . The most astonishing thing is that the samething
has been done by those who are physically Muslim.
The Role and Attitude of Iblis
Due to the action and role that he had played,
Iblis which probably in Hebrew also known as Satan, is also interpreted as
contender or enemy (see: W. Gesenius, Lexicon Manuale Hebraicum et Chaldaicum
in Veteris Testamenti Libros). In the Holy Quran it has been said that satan
are the enemy of mankind as stated in the following verses:
(1).12:5: “Said (the father): “My (dear) little
son! Relate not thy vision to thy brothers, lest they concoct a plot against
thee: for Satan is to man an avowed enemy”,
(2).17:53: “Say to My servants that they should
(only) say those things that are best: for satan doth sow dissensions among
them: for Satan is to man an avowed enemy”
(3). and 35:6: “Verily Satan is an enemy to you: so
treat him as an enemy. He only invites his adherents, That they
may become companions of the Blazing Fire”.
Other than the attitude of opposing (‘asiyy)
Satan has a lots of bad characters, such
as wild and impudent (marid and marid), to skidded or make one’s slipped
(istazalla), to stumble or cause one to trip (yughwi) and to
deviate or mislead (yudillu) mankind, satan too used strategies, some of
it is by creeping and influencing (yatakhabbat), or by prossessing (yanzagh)
, or by conquering (istahwa) or by controlling (istah’wadza) or
by creating obstruction (yasudd) or by instilling fear (yukhawwif),
or by recommendation (sawwala) and accompany (ta’uzz), or calling
(yad’u) and by trapping (yaftin), or by creating negative image
to looked positive (zayyana lahum a’malahum), or whispering negative
values in someone heart and mind (yuwaswis), or making promise or
tempting with something good (ya’iduhum wa yumannihim), or by deceiving
(dalla bi ghurur), or by making people to forget or neglect (yunsi),
or by inserting conflict and hatred (yuqi’u l-adawah wa l-baghda’), or
organizing act of sin or immoral value (ya’mur bi l-fahsya’ wa l-munkar)
or by calling people to be infidel (qala li l-insani-kfur).
These are some of the
trick used by Satan followers which are amongst the elites and intellectual.
They are also called as :
(1)
awliya’ al-syaytan” as stated in (4:76) : “Those who believe fight in
the cause of Allah, and those who reject Faith fight in the cause of Evil
(Tagut): so fight ye against the friends of Satan: feeble indeed is the cunning
of Satan”
(2) , ikwan al-sysytan (3:175) : “It is only the Satan that suggests to
you the fear of his votaries: be ye not afraid of them, but fear Me, if ye have
faith”
(3) hizb
al-syaytan (58:19) “Satan has got
the better of them, so he has made them forgot the remembrance of Allah. They
are the party of Satan. Truly, it is the Party of Satan that will lose”
(4) and junudu iblis (26:94) “Then they will be thrown headlong into the
(Fire) they and those straying in evil”
They kill the religion and propagate wild
ideology in the name of human right, freedom of expression, democracy,
reformation, modernization or revival.
The truth is for those who read and understand the
history of Islamic ideology, all these are not something new to them or had
just happen recently for the first time. All these are only the repetition and
reproduction, as the word goes: “History repeats itself”, the only differences
is the actor that changes, but the character and their act remain the same.
There is Fir’aun and there Musa a.s. There appear Suhrawardi al-Maqtul and
there Ibn Taymiyyah, and there came Hamzah Fansuri and there came ar-Raniri and
therefor.
The Holy Quran too has said (22:3-4) : “And yet
among men there are such as dispute about Allah, without knowledge, and follow
every Satan obstinate in rebellion! (4) about whom (Satan) it is decreed that
whoever turns to him for friendship, Him will he lead astray and he will guide
him to the chastisement of the fire”
And for the believer they have been reminded that
(6:121) : “ But the Satans ever inspire their friends to contend with you if
ye were to obey them, ye would indeed be Pagans”, but this doesn’t mean we
are prohibited to think or to interpret, everyone have the right in giving
opinion but with knowledge and good manner, wallahu a’lam.
*This
article is written by Dr Syamsudin in Indonesia, he is one of the auditors from
Insist Institution, and is now pursuing his second PHD program in Frankfurt
University, Germany and translated by me, Abu Muhammed graduated from Al Azhar in Islamic Jurisprudence and has
his Diploma in Psychology from Lee Com. College and Master Decree In Counseling
from Monash University.
