Top 45 Ibn Taymiyyah Quotes
#1. Make tawba not just for sins you've committed, but also for obligations you haven't fulfilled.
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#2. Ibn Taymiyyah lived poorly. He was imprisoned and threatened. But I have never seen anyone as happy as him.
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#3. Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause
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#4. If you do good in secret, Allah will shower His good on you in public.
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#5. 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.
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#6. Remembrance is to the heart what water is to the fish. And what is the state of a fish that leaves water?
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#7. Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it
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#8. When people help one another in sin and transgression, they finish by hating each other.
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#9. The People of the Sunnah are the most knowledgeable of mankind concerning the truth, and the most merciful of the creation towards the rest of creation.
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#10. The sincere hearts and the pious supplications are soldiers which can never be defeated
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#11. This whole religion revolves around knowing the truth and acting by it, and action must be accompanied by patience.
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#12. If you correct your hidden deeds subsequently, Allaah will correct your outward deeds.
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#13. Through patience and certainty, leadership in the religion is obtained.
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#14. 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).
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#15. The sign of the people of bid'ah is that they do not follow the salaf.
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#16. What can you do with me? My jannah is in my heart! If you take me to jail, I will make zikr of Allah. If you exile me out of my land, I will make takaffur. If you execute me, I would be a shaheed. What can you do with me? Because I am not limited to this dunya. I am living for al-akhira!
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#17. Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.
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#18. Men mixing with women is like fire mixing with wood.
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#19. You should not look at what the person used to do, rather you should
look at what kind of person they are today. The one who gets bogged
down about people's pasts, is just like Iblees who said to Allaah,
"You created me from fire and you created him from clay".
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#20. The disease that knowledge brings is arrogance, and the disease that worship brings is showing off
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#21. Guidance is not attained except with knowledge and correct direction is not attained except with patience.
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#22. No love that a man has will only give him pleasure in return- he shall also suffer pain because of it, except for love of Allah.
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#23. When someone offends me, I think it's a gift from Allah (god). He (Allah) is teaching me humility.
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#24. Verily, I constantly renew my Islam until this very day, as up to now, I do not consider myself to have ever been a good Muslim.
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#25. Whatever is not done by the permission of Allah will not happen, and what is not done for the sake of Allah will not benefit or remain.
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#26. A calamity that makes you turn to Allah is better for you then a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of Allah
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#27. The entire religion revolves around acknowledging the truth and then acting upon it.
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#28. 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
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#29. Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of Tawheed and reaping the fruits of righteous actions.
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#30. In this world there is a paradise, whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise of the Hereafter.
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#31. What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings.
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#32. 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.
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#33. A believer to another believer is like two hands, one washes the other (correcting each other).
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#34. What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison me is to provide me with seclusion. To send me into exile is to send me away in the Path of Allah. And to kill me is to make me a martyr.
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#35. If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant?
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#36. Contentment is the greatest door that one enters to Allah, it is the source of tranquility for the worshiper and paradise on earth. Whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise in the Hereafter.
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#37. Don't depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.
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#38. Beautiful leaving (hajr), is to leave without harming, beautiful pardoning is to pardon without rebuking, and beautiful patience is to be patient without complaining.
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#39. Dhikr (remembrance of Allah) is to the heart as water is to a fish; see what happens to a fish when it is taken out of water
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#40. Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it is the government of Muslims.
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#41. 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.
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#43. A man will never fear something besides Allah unless it be due to a disease in his heart.
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#44. Allah will support the just state even if it is led by unbelievers, but Allah will not support the oppressive state even if it is led by believers
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#45. The more humble, needy, and subdued you are before Allah, the closer you will be to Him.
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