Shaykh al-Islam ibn Taymiyyah was famous for stating profound statements, below is a selection of some of them:
1. Every punishment from Him is pure justice and every blessing from Him is pure grace.
2. Whoever desires everlasting bliss, let him adhere firmly to the threshold of servitude.
3. The Lord loves to be loved.
4. Guidance is not attained except with knowledge and correct direction is not attained except with patience.
5. In this world is a Paradise, whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise of the Hereafter.
6. 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.
7. This whole religion revolves around knowing the truth and acting by it, and action must be accompanied by patience.
8. Worship is founded upon the Legal Law and following it, not upon ones base desires and innovation.
9. If you do not taste the sweetness of an action in your heart, suspect it, for the Lord, Exalted is He, is the Appreciative.
10. The more the servant loves his Master, the less will he love other objects and they will decrease in number. The less the servant loves his Master, the more will he love other objects and they will increase in number.
11. Perpetually is the servant either the recipient of a blessing from Allah, in which case he is need of gratitude; or he is the perpetrator of a sin, in which case he is in need of repentance; he is always moving from one blessing to another and is always in need of repentance.
12. Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause.
13. Bearing witness to tawhid opens the door of good and repentance from sins closes the door of evil.
14. The Jihad against the soul is the foundation for the Jihad against the disbelievers and hypocrites.
15. A man will never fear something besides Allah unless it be due to a disease in his heart.
16. Trials and tribulation are like feeling the heat and cold, when one knows that they cannot be avoided, he will not feel anger at theirs onset, nor will he be distressed or disheartened.
17. The perfection of tawhid is found when there remains nothing in the heart except Allah, the servant is left loving those He loves and what He loves, hating those He hates and what He hates, showing allegiance to those He has allegiance to, showing enmity to those He shows enmity towards, ordering what He orders and prohibiting what he prohibits.
18. In this world, man finds in the remembrance of Allah, praising Him and worshipping Him, a delight that is incomparable to anything else.
19. The objective of asceticism is to leave all that harms the servants Hereafter and the objective of worship is to do all that benefit his Hereafter.
20. Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of tawhid and reaping the fruits of righteous actions.
21. What can my enemies do to me? I have in my breast both my heaven and my garden. If i travel they are with me, never leaving me. Imprisonment for me is a chance to be alone with my Lord. To be killed is martyrdom and to be exiled from my land is a spiritual journey.
22. Imitation generates friendship and love, and regarding them as allies in the inside, just as loving them on the inside generates imitating them on the outside.” Allaah tells us that there is no (true) believer who takes a kaafir as a friend, for whoever takes a kaafir as friend is not a believer. Imitation on the outside implies that a person loves (the one whom he imitates), and so it is forbidden.
23. The declaration of faith, there is no god but Allah, requires you to love only for the sake of Allah, to hate only for the sake of Allah, to ally yourself only for the sake of Allah, to declare enmity only for the sake of Allah; it requires you to love what Allah loves and to hate what Allah hates.
24. The Qur’aan, Sunnah and ijmaa’ (scholarly consensus) all indicate that we must differ from the kuffaar in all aspects and not imitate them, because imitating them on the outside will make us imitate them in their bad deeds and habits, and even in beliefs, which will result in befriending them in our hearts, just as loving them in our hearts will lead to imitating them on the outside.
25. Since lawful warfare is essentially Jihad and since its aim is that religion is entirely for Allah and the word of Allah is uppermost, therefore, according to all Muslims, those who stand in the way of this aim must be fought.
1. Every punishment from Him is pure justice and every blessing from Him is pure grace.
2. Whoever desires everlasting bliss, let him adhere firmly to the threshold of servitude.
3. The Lord loves to be loved.
4. Guidance is not attained except with knowledge and correct direction is not attained except with patience.
5. In this world is a Paradise, whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise of the Hereafter.
6. 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.
7. This whole religion revolves around knowing the truth and acting by it, and action must be accompanied by patience.
8. Worship is founded upon the Legal Law and following it, not upon ones base desires and innovation.
9. If you do not taste the sweetness of an action in your heart, suspect it, for the Lord, Exalted is He, is the Appreciative.
10. The more the servant loves his Master, the less will he love other objects and they will decrease in number. The less the servant loves his Master, the more will he love other objects and they will increase in number.
11. Perpetually is the servant either the recipient of a blessing from Allah, in which case he is need of gratitude; or he is the perpetrator of a sin, in which case he is in need of repentance; he is always moving from one blessing to another and is always in need of repentance.
12. Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause.
13. Bearing witness to tawhid opens the door of good and repentance from sins closes the door of evil.
14. The Jihad against the soul is the foundation for the Jihad against the disbelievers and hypocrites.
15. A man will never fear something besides Allah unless it be due to a disease in his heart.
16. Trials and tribulation are like feeling the heat and cold, when one knows that they cannot be avoided, he will not feel anger at theirs onset, nor will he be distressed or disheartened.
17. The perfection of tawhid is found when there remains nothing in the heart except Allah, the servant is left loving those He loves and what He loves, hating those He hates and what He hates, showing allegiance to those He has allegiance to, showing enmity to those He shows enmity towards, ordering what He orders and prohibiting what he prohibits.
18. In this world, man finds in the remembrance of Allah, praising Him and worshipping Him, a delight that is incomparable to anything else.
19. The objective of asceticism is to leave all that harms the servants Hereafter and the objective of worship is to do all that benefit his Hereafter.
20. Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of tawhid and reaping the fruits of righteous actions.
21. What can my enemies do to me? I have in my breast both my heaven and my garden. If i travel they are with me, never leaving me. Imprisonment for me is a chance to be alone with my Lord. To be killed is martyrdom and to be exiled from my land is a spiritual journey.
22. Imitation generates friendship and love, and regarding them as allies in the inside, just as loving them on the inside generates imitating them on the outside.” Allaah tells us that there is no (true) believer who takes a kaafir as a friend, for whoever takes a kaafir as friend is not a believer. Imitation on the outside implies that a person loves (the one whom he imitates), and so it is forbidden.
23. The declaration of faith, there is no god but Allah, requires you to love only for the sake of Allah, to hate only for the sake of Allah, to ally yourself only for the sake of Allah, to declare enmity only for the sake of Allah; it requires you to love what Allah loves and to hate what Allah hates.
24. The Qur’aan, Sunnah and ijmaa’ (scholarly consensus) all indicate that we must differ from the kuffaar in all aspects and not imitate them, because imitating them on the outside will make us imitate them in their bad deeds and habits, and even in beliefs, which will result in befriending them in our hearts, just as loving them in our hearts will lead to imitating them on the outside.
25. Since lawful warfare is essentially Jihad and since its aim is that religion is entirely for Allah and the word of Allah is uppermost, therefore, according to all Muslims, those who stand in the way of this aim must be fought.
