Ibn Taymiyyah Quotes

Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.

A calamity that makes you turn to Allah(God) is better for you than a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of Allah (God).

When someone offends me, I think it’s a gift from Allah (god). He (Allah) is teaching me humility.

How do we observe patience?” “In the same manner that we fast; completely certain that the adhān of Maghrib will eventually be called.

Sta mi mogu moji neprijatelji. Moj dzennet je u mojim prsima, prati me svugdje. Ako me zatvore, to mi je osama sa Allahom. Ako me ubiju, to mi je sehadet. A ako me protjeraju, to mi je turizam na Allahovom putu".

Don't depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.' ✋

Live your life with this principle: be good even if you do not receive good, not because for other’s sake but because Allah loves those who do good.

Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world, because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.

I couldn't solve a problematic,then I ask Allah's forgiveness more than a thousand times or less.Thus,Allah will open it for me.

Although Allah ﷻ knows what is bothering you and what your problems are, He wants you to talk to Him, through the believer’s most powerful weapon: dua.

The Prophet ﷺ said: “And know that what has befallen you was not going to miss you, and that which missed you was not meant to befall you.”92

بل يقال أنه ليس في الأرض مملكة قائمة إلا بنبوة أو أثر نبوة، وأن كل خير في الأرض فمن آثار النبوّات

ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib said: “I will be patient even until my patience tires of my patience.

Ibn taimia said,You should enjoin al-maruf with al-maruf and forbid al-munker without another munker

Don’t let your definition of success, failure or self-worth be anything other than your position with Him. And if you do this, you become unbreakable, because your handhold is unbreakable. You become unconquerable because your supporter can never be conquered. And you will never become empty because your source of fulfillment is unending and never diminishes.”8

It is no coincidence that the works of the Syrian medieval jurist Ibn Taymiyyah, whose uncompromising stance against the Alawites, had a particular resonance among the Syrian Ikhwan.

Don’t assume bad of Allah, for by Allah, if you obey Him, He will make for you a source of relief and a way out, and if you are alone within your family and society, then Allah will accompany you in your loneliness. And He will strengthen your heart, and make it firm with His guidance.

From the time of the birth of the madhabs around the second century until now, an overwhelming majority of the Umma (Muslim nation) has been following them. In fact, for hundreds of years, there was not a single Scholar worth the name except that he belonged to one of the madhabs including Al-Shaykh Ibn Taymiyya and his most famous student Ibn Al-Qayyim who were both followers of the Hanbali school.

My suffering became easier because my Lord promised me ease, not once, but twice: “So truly where there is hardship there is also ease; truly where there is hardship there is also ease.” [Quran 94:5-6]

Five reasons why Allah ﷻ puts us through trials: To direct you (He wants us to always return to Him). To inspect you (to test your faith). To protect you (from misguidance). To correct you (from your sins and straying). To perfect you.

During the era of the rightly-guided Khaleefahs, the Muslim Nation was built on the principle of justice. This is mainly why Muslims were so prosperous during those times. Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) wrote, “Verily, Allah helps a just country, even if its people are disbelievers; and He does not help a wrongdoing, oppressive country, even if its people are Muslims. It is through justice that men become upright, and it is through justice that wealth becomes abundant [among a people].

Imam Ibn Taymiyya has also stated clearly that a person who does not have the tools of ijtihād, that is, has not spent the many years learning Arabic, mastering Usul-al-Fiqh and Uloom al-Hadith, encompassing the Quranic and Hadithic texts, has no right to assert an opinion and that rather, he must do taqlīd.

I have always known that Greek logic is neither needed by the intelligent nor of any use to the dullard.

The Prophet ﷺ said, “The most beloved people to Allah are those who are most beneficial to the people. The most beloved deed to Allah is to make a Muslim happy, or to remove one of his troubles, or to forgive his debt, or to feed his hunger. That I walk with a brother regarding a need is more beloved to me than that I seclude myself in this mosque in Medina for a month. Whoever swallows his anger, then Allah will conceal his faults. Whoever suppresses his rage, even though he could fulfill his anger if he wished, then Allah will secure his heart on the Day of Resurrection. Whoever walks with his brother regarding a need until he secures it for him, then Allah the Exalted will make his footing firm across the bridge on the day when the footings are shaken.”19

Ibn Taymiyyah was a worrying figure to the establishment. His return to the fundamentals of the Quran and sunnah and his denial of much of the rich spirituality and philosophy of Islam may have been reactionary, but it was also revolutionary. He outraged the conservative ulama, who clung to the textbook answers, and criticized the Mamluk government of Syria for practices which contravened Islamic law as he understood it.

Someone asked al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī : “What is the secret to your piety?” He replied: “I understood four things: I understood that my rizq (provision/sustenance decreed by Allah ﷻ) cannot be taken by anyone, so my heart become content. I understood that no one can do my actions (worship) for me, so I started doing them myself. I understood that Allah is watching me, so I became ashamed to do wrong. I understood that death is waiting for me, so I started to prepare for my meeting with Allah

You know what the Quran teaches me? The Quran teaches me that an incredibly wealthy man can be a failure (Pharaoh) and a homeless man can be successful (Prophet Ibrāhīm ). It teaches me that success has nothing to do with wealth and failure has nothing to do with poverty.

Do not carry the worries of this life because this is for Allah. And do not carry the worries of sustenance because it is from Allah. And do not carry anxiety for the future because it is in the Hands of Allah. Carry one thing: pleasing Allah. Because if you please Him, He pleases you, fulfills you and enriches you.

You could be sleeping, and the doors of the heavens are being opened with duas being made on your behalf, subḥanAllāh: perhaps from someone poor whom you helped, or someone sad whom you brought joy, or someone passing by and you smiled at him, or someone in distress and you removed it. So do not ever underestimate any good deeds.

A believers’ most powerful tool is his dua. Imam Ibn al-Qayyim says regarding this : “If Allah did not want to accept your dua, He would have not guided you to make it (in the first place).” He also said: “whoever is inspired (By Allah) to supplicate (to Allah), then a response has already been intended for him, for Allah has said ‘Call on me, I will answer you’ [Quran 40:60].

The Hanbalite Ibn Taymiya understood Ilm (knowledge) as referring to that knowledge which derives from the Prophet. Everything else he regarded either as useless or no science at all, even though it might be called by that name.

Ibn Taymiyyah (RA) discussed this concept when he said: "If your heart is enslaved by someone who is forbidden for him: One of the main causes for this miserable situation is turning away from Allah, for once the heart has tasted worship of Allah and sincerity towards Him, nothing will be sweeter to it than that, nothing will be more delightful or more precious. No one leaves his beloved except for another one he loves more, or for fear of something else. The heart will give up corrupt love in favor of true love, or for fear of harm.

The one who goes against his whims and desires, Shaytan flees from his shadow.

One of the righteous predecessors said: “I make dua to Allah ﷻ for something I want, and if He gives it to me then I am happy once and if He does not give it to me then I am happy ten times because the first was my choice and the second was Allah’s choice.

Al-Saʿdī said: “Life is short so do not shorten it with worries, grief, and sadness.

Seek (beneficial) knowledge,because seeking it for the sake of Allaah is a worship. And knowing it makes you more God-fearing; and searching for it is jihad,teaching it to those who do not know is charity,reviewing and learning it more is like tasbeeh.Through knowledge Allaah will be known and worshiped.

The descendants of Mohammed Abd al-Wahhab are known as the family of the Sheikh or the Al al-Sheikh. Their alliance with the Al Saud is deeply rooted in the teachings of a fourteenth-century scholar Mohammed ibn Taymiyyah (1263–1328), who is the intellectual godfather of what is today known as the Wahhabi movement. Ibn Taymiyyah saw the lay rulers (ummara) and the religious scholars (ulama) as the two branches of an ideal Islamic government. The ruler was charged with providing security and enforcing Islamic, or sharia law, while the scholars were responsible for interpreting that law.5 There was no need for a legislative branch of government, since God’s eternal laws had already been revealed in the Quran.

Ibn Taymiyyah’s political framework governs Saudi Arabia in a recognizable form to this day.

Ibn Taymiyyah did not look to secular concepts such as consent of the governed or majority rule. For him, Islamic government was based on immutable, indisputable, divine revelation.

Some people have the disease of criticising all the time. They forget the good about others and only mention their faults. They are like flies that avoid the good and pure places and land on the bad and wounds. This is because of the evil within the self and the spoiled nature

If you do good in secret, Allah will shower His good on you in public.

If you want to know your value with your Lord, look to how He is using you and what actions he has kept you busy with.

These two faulty ways - the way of the man who is given up to Din without an effort to render it perfect through authority, war and wealth; and the way of the man who busies himself with authority, war and wealth without any intention of establishing his Din therewith - are the ways of those on whom the wrath of Allah is brought down and the way of those who go astray.

Ibn Taymiyyah said that Allah will uphold a just nation even if it is a disbelieving nation, and Allah will destroy an unjust nation even if it is a believing nation.

Remember two matters and forget two matters: remember Allah and death; forget any good you have done to another and any evil that was done to you by another.

Despite this historic influence, Sanusi (Muhammad b. Yusuf al-Sanusi) has elicited very little interest from Western scholars of Islam in the twentieth century. He is a striking example of just how dramatically the canon of Islamic religious thinkers has shifted in modern times. Up until the end of the nineteenth century, Sanusi was arguably a much more influential and mainstream figure in Sunni Islam than the fourteenth-century Hanbali purist Ibn Taymiyya. Today, Ibn Taymiyya is widely considered to have been a central figure in Islamic religious history, whereas Sanusi is little known even to specialists in Arabic and Islamic studies and often confused with the nineteenth century founder of the Sanusiyya Sufi order.