✍️Works of Ibn Taymiyyah

Base in love

قاعدة في المحبة

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)

About this work

هذا الكتاب للإمام ابن تيمية يتناول موضوع المحبة من منظور شرعي وعقائدي، مبينًا أنها أصل كل فعل وحركة في العالم، ومفصلًا الفرق بين المحبة المحمودة والمذمومة. ينتقد الكتاب آراء الفلاسفة والمتكلمين في مسائل المحبة والإرادة واللذة، ويؤكد أن محبة الله هي أصل التوحيد العملي، وأن الإشراك في المحبة هو أصل الشرك بالله. كما يناقش الكتاب مسائل العشق وتأويلات بعض الطوائف للمحبة، ويربط بين المحبة والدين بوصفها أساسًا للعبادة والطاعة.

Translation

This book by Imam Ibn Taymiyyah deals with the topic of love from a legal and ideological perspective, explaining that it is the origin of every action and movement in the world, and detailing the difference between praiseworthy and blameworthy love. The book criticizes the opinions of philosophers and theologians on issues of love, will, and pleasure, and affirms that love of God is the origin of practical monotheism, and that associating others with love is the origin of polytheism in God. The book also discusses issues of love and some sects’ interpretations of love, and links love and religion as a basis for worship and obedience.

Topics covered

A chapter on love and hate
The love that God commands is to worship Him alone
Love and will are the origin of every religion, meanings of the word religion
Every group of human beings must have a religion that unites them
Religion is a pledge and a contract
True religion is obedience and worship of God
Every religion except Islam is false
May God condemn division and differences in the Qur’an and Sunnah
Separating love is the basis of every action and believing in love is the basis of faith
Sects of Muslims’ interpretation of love is wrong
People dispute over the word “love.”
Second socket
The moral takeaway: It has been said that love is corruption in love and will
It was said that love is a corruption of perception, imagination, and knowledge
Third: mental pleasure
The error of the philosophists and those who follow them in the matter of pleasures
Detailed article of philosophers on pleasure
Chapter: Love of God is the basis of practical monotheism
Levels of love. God mentioned love in the Qur’an about the polytheists
Those who follow Satan are those who love what he loves
Faithful servants of God, Satan has no power over them
Lovers turn to Satan and associate him with them
Satan causes enmity between believers through love
The origin of worship is love, and polytheism contains the origin of polytheism
Sedition is a type of suspicion

قاعدة مختصرة في وجوب طاعة الله ورسوله وولاة الأمور