Yazidis are Devil Worshippers

 

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

In the Name of Allah, the Rahman, the Merciful

الصلاة والسلام عليك يا خاتم النبيين

Prayers and peace be upon you, Seal of the Prophets

The Yazidi or Yezidi religion is accurately described as devil worship by us Muslims. Yezidis take offense and object to this charge, claiming that their deity or object of worship, Tawûsî Melek, is a benevolent “peacock angel” and an emanation of God. But Devil worshippers rarely view the Devil as evil. Consider the infamous Church of Satan founded by Anton LaVey (1930-1997) in 1966. These Satanists do not consider Satan evil, rather the symbolic personification of what they consider positive hedonism and sexuality. The fact of the matter is that the Yezidis identify their god, Tawûsî Melek, with the figure of Iblis. In the Holy Quran is the account of Allah ordering the Angels and Iblis to prostrate before Adam, but Iblis obstinately and proudly refused, resulting in the Fall. Iblis justified his refusal to obey Allah and prostrate before Adam, saying,

أَنَا خَيْرٌ مِّنْهُ خَلَقْتَنِي مِن نَّارٍ وَخَلَقْتَهُ مِن طِينٍ

I am better than him. You created me from fire and you created him from clay

(Surah 7:12)

According to Yezidi lore, their god, Tawûsî Melek, likewise refused to bow before Adam: “Then God gave life to Adam from his own breath and instructed all archangels to bow to Adam. The archangels obeyed except for Tawûsê Melek. In answer to God, Tawûsê Melek replied, ‘How can I submit to another being! I am from your illumination while Adam is made of dust.’”

According to one of the two sacred texts of the Yezidis known as the Mashaf Reš or the “Black Book”: “Thereupon Melek Ta’us visited Adam and said ‘Have you eaten of the grain?’ He answered, ‘No, God forbade me.’ Melek Ta’us replied and said, ‘Eat of the grain and all shall go better with thee.’ Then Adam ate of the grain and immediately his belly was inflated. But Melek Ta’us drove him out of the garden” (Joseph, Isya. Devil Worship: The Sacred Books and Traditions of the Yezidiz. The Gorham Press, Boston, 1919, p.38)

The Yezidis identify their god with the figure of the Devil who tempted Adam and Eve to eat from the forbidden tree, thus being the cause of their banishment from the Garden of Eden. The Black Book further states that the false god of the Yezidis is named Azazil: “a separate community shall appear upon the earth, that of Azazîl, i. e., that of Melek Tâ’ûs, which is the sect of the Yezidis.” (ibid)

Azazil is one of the names of Iblis, according to the eminent Sahabi, Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him:

‌كَانَ ‌إِبْلِيسُ ‌اسْمُهُ ‌عَزَازِيلُ

The name of Iblis was Azazil (Tafsir Ibn Abi Hatim, v.1, p.84, #360)