Ibn Taymiyyah quotes

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. (Ibn Taymiyyah)

Guidance is not attained except with knowledge and correct direction is not attained except with patience.

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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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This whole religion (of Islam) revolves around knowing the truth and acting by it, and action must be accompanied by patience.

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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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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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The jihad against the soul is the foundation for the Jihad against the disbelievers and hypocrites.

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God does not create pure evil. Rather, in everything that He creates is a wise purpose by virtue of what is good. However, there may be some evil in it for some people, and this is partial, relative evil. As for total evil or absolute evil, the Lord is exonerated of that.

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Better a century of tyranny than one day of chaos.

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Occupation: Philosopher
Born: January 15, 1263
Died: September 18, 1328
Quotes count: 9

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