✍️Works of Ibn Taymiyyah

Slavery

العبودية

Author: تقي الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن عبد الحليم بن عبد السلام بن عبد الله بن أبي القاسم بن محمد ابن تيمية الحراني الحنبلي الدمشقي (المتوفى: 728هـ) (d. 728)

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العبودية أو رسالة العبودية هو أحد كتب الفقيه الحنبلي شيخ الإسلام ابن تيمية، وهي رسالة صغيرة عبارة عن جواب على أسئلة وُجِّهت إليه، سُئل فيه عن العبادة ما هي؟ وما فروعها؟ وهل مجموع الدين داخل فيها أم لا؟ وما حقيقة العبودية؟ وهل هي أعلى المقامات في الدنيا والآخرة أم فوقها شيء من المقامات. وقد تناول فيها ابن تيمية أعمال القلوب، وبيَّن المعنى الحقيقي للعبودية، وخطورة تعلق القلب بما هو زائل من أعراض الدنيا. …

Translation

Slavery or the Message of Slavery is one of the books of the Hanbali jurist Sheikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah. It is a small message that is an answer to questions directed to him, in which he was asked about worship: What is it? What are its branches? Is the total debt included in it or not? What is the truth about slavery? Is it the highest position in this world and the hereafter, or is there any position above it? In it, Ibn Taymiyyah discussed the actions of the heart, and explained the true meaning of servitude, and the danger of the heart’s attachment to the fleeting symptoms of this world. …

Topics covered

Message sermon
Question submitted to Sheikh Al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah
The answer of Sheikh Al-Islam
Definition of worship and its branches
Calling the prophets to worship God
Describing the servants of the Most Gracious as worship
Describing angels as worship
Describing the prophets as worship
Religion: Islam, faith, and charity
Ranks of love
It is necessary to give priority to the love of God and the Messenger over everything
The type of love and obedience to God and His Messenger
Worshiping God Almighty alone
God is according to believers
All created beings are servants of God
Servitude related to the lordship of God
The reality of slavery
The difference between universal truth and religious truth
The fate that we are commanded to be satisfied with and be patient with
Adam Musa’s argument about fate
What the guilty must do
The righteous and the corrupt are not equal
The difference between the people of truth and falsehood
Disbelief of those who believe in (solutions)
The truth of worship and obedience

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