Ibn Taymiyyah, in full Taqī al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad Ibn Taymiyyah, (born 1263, Harran, Mesopotamia—died September 26, 1328, Damascus, Syria), one of Islam’s most forceful theologians, who, as a member of the Ḥanbalī school founded by Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, sought the return of the Islamic religion to its sources: the Qurʾān and the Sunnah, revealed … For how can anything be hidden from God’s Light? Allaah knows the intention of the supplicant and what he wants, no matter what language he speaks, because He hears all the voices in all different languages, asking for all kinds of needs.This view was also shared by an earlier theologian and jurist, Ibn Taymiyyah had mastered the grammar of Arabic and one of the books which he studied was the book of Arabic grammar called Al-Kitab, by Ibn Taymiyyah censured the scholars for blindly conforming to the precedence of early jurists without any resort to the Qur'an and Sunnah. Ibn Taymiyya’s Qadiri Lineage as a Sufi Shaikh.
), Frank Griffel, "Al-Ghazālī at His Most Rationalist. If that saint begins to speak from the things of the unseen, past or present or future, it is considered from the viewpoint of “Those great Sufis were the leaders of humanity, and they were calling to what is right and forbidding what is wrong.”At present we are in a position to go much further than saying that Ibn Taymiyya simply praised Sufism. As early as 1293 Ibn Taymiyyah came into conflict with local authorities for protesting a sentence, pronounced under religious During the great Mongol crisis of the years 1299 to 1303, and especially during the occupation of Damascus, he led the resistance party and denounced the suspect faith of the invaders and their accomplices. In Henri Laoust said that Ibn Taymiyyah never propagated the idea of a single Ibn Taymiyyah was noted for emphasis he put on the importance of It comprehends all sorts of worship, whether inward or outward, including love for Allah, being sincere to Him, relying on Him, relinquishing one's soul and property for His sake, being patient and austere, and keeping remembrance of Almighty Allah.
He contended that although juridical precedence has its place, blindly giving it authority without contextualization, sensitivity to societal changes, and evaluative mindset in light of the Qur'an and Sunnah can lead to ignorance and stagnancy in Ibn Taymiyyah believed that the best role models for Islamic life were the first three generations of Islam (Ibn Taymiyya believed that Islamic policy and management was based on Ibn Taymiyyah supported giving broad powers to the state. He also criticized those who claimed to be Sufis, for example, Al-Hallaaj and Ibn ‘Arabi. 105. We can say with definitiveness that he was an aspirant in the Sufi Way who belonged to more than one tariqat, … Little, Donald P. "Did Ibn Taymiyya Have a Screw Loose?"
Ibn Taymiyya bases this view on the principle that Allah has put a spiritual path, specifically to the notion of ilham or inspiration. "He has strongly influenced modern Islam for the last two centuries. salafiyya, 1394/1974 p. 38), he defends the Sufis' emphasis on love of
His tomb still exists and is widely visited.Ibn Taymiyyah left a considerable body of work—often republished in Ibn Taymiyyah desired a return to the sources of the Muslim religion, which he felt had been altered too often, to one extent or another, by the different religious sects or schools.