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Title: What is meant by the devils being chained up in Ramadaan?
Post by: bamalli on August 18, 2007, 08:19:24 PM
What is meant by the devils being chained up in Ramadaan?

Question:
What do you say about the devils being chained up in Ramadaan?.

Answer:
Praise be to Allaah. 

Al-Bukhaari (1899) and Muslim (1079) narrated from Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "When Ramadaan comes, the gates of Paradise are opened, the gates of Hell are closed, and the devils are chained up."

The scholars differed as to the meaning of the devils being chained up in Ramadaan.

Al-Haafiz ibn Hajar said, quoting al-Haleemi: It may be interpreted at meaning that the devils are not able to tempt the Muslims as they are at other times because they are busy with the fast which controls their desires, and with reading Qur'aan and dhikr (remembrance of Allaah). Another scholar – someone other than al-Haleemi – said that what is meant by the devils is some of them, namely the maarids (strong devils), who are chained up.

'Iyaad said: it may be interpreted in a literal sense, and that is as a sign to the angels that the month has begun, and in veneration of its sanctity, and so as to prevent the devils from harming the Muslims. And it may be interpreted as referring to the great amount of reward and forgiveness, and that the devils tempt people less, so it is as if they are chained up. This second interpretation is supported by the fact that according to a report narrated by Yoonus from Ibn Shihaab which is recorded by Muslim it says "the gates of mercy are opened". The chaining up of the devils may also be understood as a metaphor for them being unable to tempt people and make their whims and desires attractive to them. Al-Zayn ibn al-Muneer said: The first view is most likely to be correct, and there is no need to try to understand it in anything other than the literal sense.

Fath al-Baari, 4/114.

Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked about the words of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) "and the devils are chained up," – yet we still see people suffering from epilepsy during the day in Ramadaan, so how can the devils be chained up when some people are suffering epileptic fits?

He replied: In some versions of the hadeeth it says "and the strong devils (maarids) are chained up" – this is narrated by al-Nasaa'i. This hadeeth is speaking of matters of the unseen, so we have to accept it and not discuss it any further. This is safer for a person's religious commitment. Hence when 'Abd-Allaah, the son of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal said to his father, "Some people suffer epileptics fits during the day in Ramadaan," the Imam said: "This is what the hadeeth says and we do not discuss this."

Moreover it seems that what is meant by their being chained up is that they are prevented from tempting people, based on the fact that there is a great deal of goodness and many people turn to Allaah during Ramadaan.

Majmoo' al-Fataawa, 20.

Based on this, the chaining up of the devils is something that happens in a real sense, about which Allaah knows best. This does not mean that evil things do not happen or that people do not commit sin. And Allaah knows best.
Title: Re: What is meant by the devils being chained up in Ramadaan?
Post by: ummita on September 12, 2007, 12:18:50 AM
 It spooks me.....every year wen I keep hearin or reading about devils or jinns being chained......Givs me this eerie feeling......Allah kara ma mutum imani nata
Title: Re: What is meant by the devils being chained up in Ramadaan?
Post by: bamalli on October 06, 2007, 02:48:17 PM
Amin thumma amin.
Title: Re: What is meant by the devils being chained up in Ramadaan?
Post by: ummita on October 09, 2007, 06:04:40 PM
Devils r being chained up durin Ramadan & so is Shaytan right?............But this givs room for the little gray area to overpower my precised yet former thoughts..........

If Shaytan is the accelarator of all evil doings......and the driver of all evil doers......people still do mind-repulsive and bad things durin ramadan......does it mean we hav traces of shaytan as part of our innerbeings in a period of his non-existance?......Or is it part of human nature? Because, I really cant understand, why in a period dat we meant to be clean, we still do a little badness.....

& I put my hands up.......I just cudnt help repaying my aunt wit a little bad when am suppose to forgive her. Am sure u havnt been 100% clean tru out d ramadan period too......So whose behind it then?.......evilness, Shaytan (who is mostly blameworthy to most wrongs) or simply us? :-\
Title: Re: What is meant by the devils being chained up in Ramadaan?
Post by: idriss on October 13, 2007, 04:06:58 AM
Salaamalaykum oh brother my understanding is that though the shayateen have been chained up and Allah has made easy for us to do good deeds' the reason why people still persist in evil is because it is their habit and one cannot attribute to the shiatan such practice because the heart has become dark from sin and habitual sin is hard for the person to relies his only way of reforming the soul is to seek refuge with his lord and allah knows best Idriss