What can my enemies do to me? Ibn Taymiyyah More Quotes by Ibn Taymiyyah More Quotes From Ibn Taymiyyah Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of Tawheed and reaping the fruits of righteous actions. Ibn Taymiyyah roaming locks garden The one who is [truly] imprisoned is the one whose heart is imprisoned from Allah and the captivated one is the one whose desires have enslaved him. Ibn Taymiyyah captivated desire heart Remembrance is to the heart what water is to the fish. And what is the state of a fish that leaves water? Ibn Taymiyyah remembrance heart water The entire religion revolves around acknowledging the truth and then acting upon it. Ibn Taymiyyah acting As for the people of Tasawwuf, they affirm the love of Allah, and this is more evident among them than all other issues....the affirmation of the love of Allah is well-known in the speech of their [old] and recent masters, just as it is affirmed in the Holy Qur'an and the Sunnah and in agreement of the ways of the early generation (Salaf) Ibn Taymiyyah islamic issues wisdom Among the principles of the Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah lie the attitude of peace and purity of their heart and tongue towards the Sahaba(Companions) of the Prophet (saw). Ibn Taymiyyah wisdom attitude lying Through patience and certainty, leadership in the religion is obtained. Ibn Taymiyyah certainty Perpetually is the servant either the recipient of a blessing from Allaah, in which case he is need of gratitude; or he is the perpetrator of sin, in which case he is in need of repentance; he is always moving from one blessing to another and is always is in need of repentance. Ibn Taymiyyah gratitude blessing moving Whoever considers the Attributes of Allaah to be like the attributes of the creation, such that the Istawaa of Allaah is like the ascending of the creation, or His Descending (Nuzool) is like the descending of the creation or other than that, then he is a deviated innovator. Ibn Taymiyyah ascending attributes creation Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause Ibn Taymiyyah repentance causes sin Indeed, the term body (jism), organs ('arad), extent (mutahayyiz) and their like are all newly-invented terminologies. We have mentioned many a time before that the Salaf and the Imaams have not spoken about such things, neither by way of a negation nor by way of affirmation. Rather, they declared those who spoke about such matters to be innovators and went to great lengths to censure them. Ibn Taymiyyah body matter way