Thank you so much Philip for all the amazing content that you post on your channel. I was looking for this video for so long. It came right on time. If you can do another one on Ibn Al Qayim Al Djawziya that would be awesome. Once again a million thanks :)

Whoa. This is one massive achievement. You should really be proud of what you just did. Thank you so much my man!

Thank you. I I truly appreciate your very informative topics in your videos!

This so informative and concise that does not compete for time...Thank you for sharing

Informative, objective and accurate illustration as usual. Thank you brother.

Hats Off to your devotion, good interpretation and presentation. Much Respect!

Great video. Well balanced & insightful as always

I'm a native Arabic Muslim and I've been researching Islamic literature for as far as i can remember, and to be honest, your coverage was far beyond my imagination and exposed me to some ideas i have never thought of. Great effort man really appreciate it 🙏

What a great, balanced and informative video. Thank you so much. God bless you!!!

One can not understand ibn taymiyya without understanding the situation of the middle east in his time. The middle east today is very similar to his time, a divided post-caliphate muslim world. This is why he's very popular

this video was really good. Congrats on the accurate information and comments.

This is a fascinating video that puts a lot of what we’re seeing today in its proper perspective. Thank you for this delightfully respectful, truthful, and entertaining video!

Thanks. Great as always. Please make a detailed video on how neoplatonism, gnosticism and sufism have influenced Ismailism. Would love to see your take on it.

This truly is an outstanding work!

Very well done, highly objective and precise.

Great video. We absolutely love a video on Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya

Amazing work, thanks for your efforts this was an extremely well done and accurate put together video

This Salafi moment reminds me a lot of the broader Protestant and Puritan Christian movements in the much later centuries that aimed to "purify" the dominant religion which was perceived to have strayed away it's origin both carrying a similar legacy in their respective realms of influence (but obviously with different overall timelines/trajectories). There is also some ideological similarity in his legal approach to what we would call Constitutional Originalism in the modern United States.

please enable auto generated subtitles. It will help those who dont speak English as first language. Great video, please make more of these

This is alot of work you have done. Thanks

Amazing video!. Would love to see a video on Ibn Al Qayyim the foremost student of Ibn Taymiyyah.

What can my enemies do to me? My Paradise is in my heart; it goes with me wherever I am. If they kill me, it is martyrdom. If they exile me from my land, it is a vacation in the Path of Allah. If they imprison me, it is to allow me a private devotion with Allah. Ibn Taymiyyah (rahimahullaah).

i'm really enjoying the change up to a different type of figure/history of a different ideological movement.

Great video, it would've been nice to hear more about his refutation of deductive theology, bit nice summary ما شاء اللَّه!

Sacking? Mongols sacking Baghdad is quite putting lightly. They slaughtered at least a quarter million ppl like animals and raized the city to ground. If they only sacked, seen some art and literature would have been saved.

Alhamdulillah!!! Here is yet another informative golden gem in my my way to the journey of Islam. Thanks a lot. It couldn't be much better!!!

Impressive! Very brief but full of knowledge.

Thank for the great work you done ❤

As a modern Salafi, I wanted to thank you for a fair and objective presentation about this topic - you were careful with your words and despite the very difficult subject matter, you really treated it like a completely unbiased documentary. That is truly hard to find nowadays; may Allah reward you.

Excellent, absolutely informative - very well done , as expected . Is there a chain of theologians which exists till 19 - 20 th century .

Another great teaching brother. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Thanks for this it is very enlightening!

As a person who read a lot of ibn teymiyye's work a long time ago, this is a video i waited a lot

Ibn Taymiyyah was based, not saying I agree with all his views, but the man knew how to hold his own.

Awesome work! Thank you!

thank you.. such a beautiful explanation..

Awesome, I suggest that you make a video about people who lived when Moghols attacked the Islamic countries.There are lots of people who had a great influence on Islamic world that lived in that century, people like Rumi or Ghazali or some of the most famous Iranian poets. I think it would be great if you analize their life through the context which they lived in. There is no time in Islamic world that they have this number of famous people.

Wauv! Thank you. I'm not muslim, but I really enjoyed watching it, since I like to understand the problems with(in) islam in the world today. Thank you, once again! Keep more coming, please!!

Great effort and excellent presentation, thank you.

Thank you for this video!

Thank you, brother. Very interesting and informative video. It is puzzling to balance his rather Puritan attitude towards the interpretation of textual sources and personal ijtihad with his aggressive theology, that is closer to anthropomorphism than not. I think this is why most of the Salafi schools now completely drop the kalam/theology arguments, and focus on the importance of worship and its detailed technicalities.

It's always good to understand why people turn to violence and murder as a righteous cause because it's being done to them.

Thank you for the informative video.

Saw the whole video. Thank you!

What a good video! Also when the letter 'b' comes after a 'n', the 'n' morphs into a 'm' sound- for ease of pronunciation. E.g, Hanbali turns into Hambali. Also in the Qur'an; 'min ba'di' morphs into ' mim ba'di', meaning..after...

So salafism rose during the Mongolian invasion and revived during the colonial invasion 🤔

Brilliant! Thank you.

Excellent work thanks for this video

You should do Ibn Hanbal next!

Excellent video, and a fair coverage IMO. Since you spoke about Bi-La Kayf and Kalam, can you also make videos about Al-ash'ari, Athari, and Al-Maturadi, and the Islamic theology of absolute rationalism (late mu'tazilah)? EDIT: Also hoping you explain to people tawil and tafwid.

great and much needed video

Bro this was really good one🙌

What an amazing video!!!! U explain all these arguments in such simple terms and so non judgmentallyit amazing!!!! Just shows ur academic excellence.💖.

Those who demolish the mausoleum of Fatma Zehra ra and imam Hassan ra and take pride in that are no different from ISIS who demolished the graves and mausoleum of Sahabas....

Feeling honoured to be the first one to comment! Love your channel Mr. Fillip. :)

Absolutely great video. Keep up the good work🙂

One of the greatest imams in all of time ❤

Many make the mistake of comparing "Salafism" with Protestantism. The "message" might be the same, but the application and the resources are very much different. Also, the main divide here is between the Salafists and the Asharite/Maturidites. Shiites are not included in the picture, as they're a completely different breed of Islam and are considered extreme heretics by both Salafists and Asharites (excluding extreme sufis, who share many of Shiites traditions hence they consider Salafists enemies by nature). The message is clear and simple. We have clear and unambiguous instruction from our Prophet peace be upon him, the companions, and all Imams that follows from the first three generations, that whoever and whatever innovations, big or small, that is introduced into the religion (Islam), is rejected. This leads to the major division between Salafists and Asharites, is that Asharites, very much later after the Prophet's death (peace be upon him), they went into explaining Allah's nature and attributes in a manner that is extremely new and innovative, bringing in western philosophies and sciences in order to substantiate their beliefs (with good intention ofcourse). Again, I have to stress the point that the divide between the Salafis and the Ashartes is not as extreme, not even mildly close, as the divide between Sunnis in general and Shiites. This is proven by the adoption of knowledge between Salafis and Asharites, where (majority of) Asharites consider Ibn Taymiyyah as a great scholar (with mistakes), whereas Shias consider him the number 1 heretic and enemy of their religion.

Excellent! Thank you 🙏

Great explanation, your knowledge of Islam is very vast.

Thank you so much for sharing this figure. Such a comprehensive video! Indeed, it is difficult to consider Ibn Taymiyya a Sufi, because usually academics categorise a Sufi into two schools, either "Tasawwuf Sunni" or "Tasawwuf Falsafi". However, Ibn Taymiyya himself in fact cannot be classified into these two schools of Sufism. Fazlur Rahman felt the need to make up a new typology to cover Ibn Taymiyya's Sufism style outside of Sunni Sufism and Falsafi Sufism. This typology is termed neo-Sufism by him. The views of Ibn Taymīyah and his loyal disciple, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, are then classified as neo-Sufism. These two classical figures are considered by him the pioneers of neo-Sufism; a Sufism school characterised by a great emphasis on moral motives and the application of the methods of remembrance and muraqabah to God. In contrast to Rahman, several academics such as Mustafa Hilmi and 'Abd al-Qadir Mahmud categorise the position of Ibn Taymiyya's Sufism outside the typology of Sunni Sufism and Falsafi Sufism as well as neo-sufism, that is "Salafi Sufism" (al-Tasawwuf al-Salafi). This typology is considered in line with the model of Salafism of Ibn Taymiyya.

Although many Muslim with disagree with this man and many will agree with this personality. Thank you for the upload.

very thorough study, and informative program

Well done on the video mate!

Great work! I think I can add one point: Ibn Taymiyya's harsh fatwas on shia in general were motivated by politics, The mongol illkhanate accepted islam and favoured Shia ideology over sunni ideology, that meant Muslims in levant had to fight invading MUSLIM mongols. That made the notion to fight mongols back less popular,as they already had an overwhelming power in addition to their cruelty, and fact that mongols accepted islam made it even more complicated. In fact Ibn taymiyya's most popular book( Minjah Al sunna Al nabawiyya) is a response to a book called ( Minhaj Al Karama fi Ithbat Al Imamah) written by Ibn Mutahhar Al Hilli who was the head of Shia scholars during his lifetime(first to be given the title Ayatollah), Ibn Al Mutahhar himself was a student of Nasir Aldin Al Tusi, A prominent Shia scholar, who was an advisor to the infamous Hulagu Khan. It's accepted among Sunnis and Shia today that Ibn Al Mutahhar was the reason Mongol illkhanate officials favoured Shia doctrine over its Sunni counterpart. So in my own personal opinion: Ibn Taymiyya viewed Shia as an enemy that was trying to undermine the Muslim world. He never viewed them as Muslims with different views. Same goes to other Shia minorities: alawites and duruz: he accused (in his fatwa) these minorities of siding and aiding mongols and crusaders. In short: Ibn Taymiyya and his critique of Shia and their beliefs were the result of Muslim-Mongol conflict

Thank you for bringing this information to us Philip it's clear that Ibn Taymiyya's ideology is still very influential and I think us understanding this will go one step towards a greater understanding of the issues it has led to and the fact that Islam, like all religions is no monolithic edifice, it contains just as much diversity of thought as all of humanity itself..

👏 Congrats, great works....

Great work I really loved your objective on this topic. Btw its really beautiful to see Muslim (at least sounds like:)) names between your patrons

a lot of people claim the aqeedah of Ibn Taymiyyah are the one's of the pious predecessors, even though its creed is not in line with the predecessors, as it emphasizes many ambiguous ayats of the Qur'an literally, whereas the default Athari position was a form of unreflective traditionalism, where you don't ask anything and leave the meaning to god. the Ash'ari and Maturidi do tafwidh, but they add up a meaning to find the hikma behind the ayat, while at the same time knowing that the true meaning is left to Allah. I really hope this makes people understand the difference. nonetheless, great video, there are some errors in the "Bi la Kayf" of Ibn Taymiyyah, as he imposes the modality of mutashabihat ayats, but a lot of them are pretty descriptive.

Very informative 👌🏻

Thanks again for sharing :) - Wonder if you been looking into Ertugrul with the hit show and be great to see what historic information can be found.

it seems to me that radical protestant ideas permeated islam in 18th century, and that the clerics at the time searched for some kind of person in the history of islam which held similar views to name it their predecessor. Ibn Taymiyya got that honor.

great neutral reporting on this great figure

Much appreciated effort

Hahaha thanks for doing this topic! the Muslim Oliver cromwell! I remember I requested it 😁

can u make a video about al-qarafi and his approach to the limitation of the state? Peace from Germany

Actually i can argue three things that were said in this amazing video: 1. His "harsh" fatwa against alawits and duruz, it was not an unique fatwa of his own, and this fatwa had a political side in the context of thier negative role in the ongoing conficts that time, and this fatwa got very influent and popular because it came from such an important influent scholar/fighter and made him more popular. 2. His fatwa against mongols, again there was a historical and political context, when mongols invading the heart of the islamic empire and some of muslims were having second thoughts defending themselves against the invaders because some of them declared themselves muslims, so ibn teymiyye said that even if some of them believe in some islamic ideas and believes, they still should be fought back. 3. The views againt "taklid" that were mentioned in the video seems like the anti-taklid school in the 20th century, not ibn teymiyye's view himself, he always had been a hanbali scholar, but felt himself free to go beyond his hanbali school when he found it right, and had the courage to do it alot of times but in the frame of hanbali school, the nowadays school of salafis (or most of them) do not look to this that way, and some of them went too extreme in baning "taklid" completely

Very well analysed development of Ibnu Tammiya’s views.

Great informative and interesting video.

"Saying GOD has a hand but unlike our hands such and such..." is tashbiyh, the other side of the coin to tajsiym. Ibn Taymiyya errors are twofold, in Fiq'h and in 'Aqiyda (ie he clearly delve into Kalaam something that Hanabila do not allow in their Asthaariyya creed). When the Shaykhul Islaam, Imaam Taqiyuddiyn As-Subkiy RHM said he learnt without a guide/teacher, it was in reference to his second errors, as he is held in high regards among the Hanabila, unfortunately, where he is ranked at the 3rd or 4th level in their scholarship ranking, again unfortunately. The 2nd problem is where the real issue is. Since Hanabila can't really deal with his Kalaam without delving into Kalaam themselves, his Kalaam thus fall into the jurisdiction of the Ash'ariyya scholarship to deal with. His final legacy is dividing Muslims whenever his name is mentioned. His greatest legacy is that his name can never unify the Muslims and will forever split and tear apart any Muslim society where his name surfaces among them. One can never escape their lifetime's handiwork.

Long-awaited episode! I did a presentation on Ibn Taymiyya and his understanding of Theodicy a couple of months ago. His actual life and teaching is certainly more nuanced than the popular caricature and whether you agree with his worldview or specific ideas or not, one has to admit his great importance as a Muslim theologian, maybe second only to Al-Ghazālī

That was so beautiful detailed version of Ibn e Temiyah

Very interesting channel you cover all aspects

Was mid mental breakdown and got video notification. All smiles now.

May Allah have mercy on him Aameen. Sheikhul Islam

Thank you sir.❤️

Wow your pronunciation of Arabic words is amazing

11:29 Ibn Taymiyyah wasn't against dhikr, this is completely false . The asal of dhikr is established from Qur'ān and Sunnah. Instead what he was against is dhikr in unison i.e people sitting together and reciting and praising Allah's name together in one voice. This according to him was bida' and not the dhikr itself. So according to Ibn Taymiyyah if people get together inorder to remember Allah i.e dhikr its fine as long as they dont start doing this in unison in one voice. He (Ibn Taymiyyah) will call this bida' because it wasn't established from Qur'ān and Sunnah and neither the first three generations....

The hanbali mazhab was actually not the strictest, Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal usually gave multiple rulings for issues because he believed in the leniency of Islam. The strictest mazhab is generally considered to be Hanafi.

An unbiased overview of Ibn Taymiyyah. Thank you.

May Allah guide you. You’re intelligent.

thank you for your informative and beneficial videos , I would really like if you could make videos about the four primary school of sunni islam and represent the similarities and diffrences like comparsion to help us understanding them very well ,thank you!

رحم الله شيخ الإسلام ابن تيميه🦅🇸🇾

May Allah have mercy on Shaykhul Islam Ibn Taymiah Rahimahullah for his balanced understanding of Islamic creed and straunch opposition to religious innovations and saint and grave worshipping.

Thank you ❤👏🏾👏🏾

It's fascinating how much Ibn Taymiyyah parallels Martin Luther. I was already somewhat familiar with Ibn Taymiyyah, but this time around it hit me that what he's advocating for is remarkably similar to (though definitely not the same as) Luther's principles of sola fide and sola scriptura.

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Thank you so much ❤️❤️❤️❤️,

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Finally a video on Ibn Taymiyya, glad you touched this quite controversial figure in Islam.