Ibn Taymiyyah Quotes

“The more humble, needy, and subdued you are before Allah, the closer you will be to Him.

“A believer to another believer is like two hands, one washes the other (correcting each other).

“Whenever you are needy toward people, even for a glass of water to drink, their regard for you will decrease by the degree of your neediness toward them.

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“The servant, no matter how much effort he expends, cannot carry out his duties toward Allah in the way that He has commanded him, and for this reason he can do nothing but pray to God forgiveness and make repentance after every act of worship.

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“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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“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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“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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“Whoever continuously abandons the sunnah (voluntary) prayers, then this shows a weakness in his religion.

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“The two armies that can never be defeated are: the sincere heart, and the righteous dua.

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“Purifying the soul, acting upon knowledge, and fearing Allah have a tremendous effect on obtaining knowledge.

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“Hudaa (guidance) is not attained except through `Ilm (Knowledge) and Rashaad (Righteousness) is not attained except through Sabr (Patience)

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“Allah must be dearer than anything else to the slave, Allah must be more important than all else.

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“If the heart tastes the sweetness of the worship of Allaah and sincerity towards Him, nothing besides this will be sweeter, more delightful, pleasurable and agreeable. Moreover, a person only abandons something beloved to him, when it is for something else even more beloved to him or because of fear of something harmful. Corrupt love can be relinquished by the heart as a result of a righteous love or fear of harm.

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“Fitnah continues upon the heart, except if the Deen of the slave is completely for Allah.

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“There is no separation between correcting what is inward and correcting what is outward or physical. The outward acts of worship which a person performs with his physical faculties—if he does them for the sake of Allah—will undoubtedly have an effect on his inward nature.

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“When people help one another in sin and transgression, they finish by hating each other.

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“The perfection of Tawheed 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 towards those He shows enmity towards, ordering what He orders and prohibiting what He prohibits.

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“Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of tawhid and reaping the fruits of righteous actions.

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“The Lord is to be loved.

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“The scholar who has every knowledge must not cause people to despair in Allah's mercy, and will not dare them in disobeying Allah. Making haram things halal is kufr, and despair of the mercy of Allah is kufr.

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“Whoever chooses a person, whoever it may be, and constantly and steadfastly agrees with him in speech and action, then he is of: "those who have divided their religion and become sects." [Quran 30:32]

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“Imam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy upon him) was asked: Which one is better for the servant [of Allah], istighfar [seeking Allah's forgiveness in prayer] or tasbeeh [glorifying Allah in prayer]? He answered: If a dress is clean, then incense and rose water are better, and if it is dirty then soap and water is better. tasbeeh is the incense of the pure ones, and istighfar is the soap of the sinners.

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“The person who is righteous and honest, his honesty is manifest from the radiance on his face, and his honesty can be known from the glow that is on his face, likewise the (opposite for the) sinful one and the liar. The older a person gets, the more this sign becomes apparent. Thus a person as a child would have a bright face, however if he becomes a sinful person, adamant on committing sins, at the older stages in his life, an ugly face would manifest that which he used to internalise, and the opposite is also true. It has been narrated that Ibn Abbaas (radiyallaahu ‘anhu) said, ‘Indeed righteousness illuminates the heart, radiates the face, strengthens the body, increases provision, and produces a love in the hearts of the creation for that person. Whereas sinfulness darkens the heart, greys the face, weakens the body, and produces hatred in the hearts of the creation for that person.’

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“Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it.

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“Whoever acts upon what he knows is blessed with knowledge of what he does not know.

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“The entire religion revolves around acknowledging the truth and then acting upon it.

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“No love that a man has will only give him pleasure in return— he shall also suffer pain because of it, except for the love of God.

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“This world in the eyes of the believer is like the restroom: he has a need for it and uses it, but it occupies no love in his heart.

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“The essence of iman (faith) is to believe the Prophet in all that he says, and to conform with all that he commands.

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“No one has ever taken revenge for himself except that it created in him a degradation and humiliation in his nafs [psyche], because revenge looks like strength and power on the outside but on the inside it is degradation and humiliation, while forgiveness creates strength and power both on the inside and out.

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“It is strange that a person may find it easy to protect himself from: eating Haraam, oppression and injustice, adultery, theft, drinking khamr (alcoholic drinks), and from unlawful looking, but it is hard for him to restrain the movement of his tongue. How often do we see people who are very cautious about falling into shameful deeds or injustice, but their tongue lashes against the living and the dead and they don’t mind it?

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“People should perform the du`a's that are found in the Quran and Sunnah, for there is no doubt in the excellence in the blessings of these du`a's. These du`a's are of the straight path—the path of those whom Allah favored, of the prophets, the sincere, the martyrs, and the righteous, and what a great company they are!

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“So the servant is always in need of his Lord, from every perspective. This is because He is the object of his worship, and the source of all of his help. So no one can bring him any good except Him, and nothing can better the situation of the servant except His worship. And on top of all of this, the servant is sinning, and there is no way that he can avoid this. So he is always in need, sinning, and he is in need of the One who always Forgives, the One who is Ever-Merciful. The One who always Forgives (al-Ghafoor) will Forgive his sins, and the Ever-Merciful will show him Mercy and bless him and be kind to him. So the servant is eternally between the blessings of his Lord and the sins of his soul.

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