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Imam Ibn Taymiyya mentions in the volume already cited, page 190: \u201cA servant of Allah, Almighty and Exalted, cannot be considered a saint unless he is a true believer. Allah mentions in Qur\u2019an, Surat Yunus, 62-63: \u201cNow surely, on the friends of Allah there is no fear, nor shall they grieve; those who believe and guard against evil.\u201d<\/p>\n
He then quotes the famous hadith from Bukhari: \u201cMy servant draws not near to Me with anything more loved by Me than the religious duties I have enjoined upon him, and My servant continues to draw near to Me with supererogatory works so that I shall love him. When I love him I am his hearing with which he hears, his seeing with which he sees, his hand with which he strikes and his foot with which he walks. Were he to ask [something] of Me, I would surely give it to him, and were he to ask Me for refuge, I would surely grant him it. I do not hesitate about anything as much as I hesitate about [seizing] the soul of My faithful servant: he hates death and I hate hurting him.\u201d<\/p>\n
He explains the phrase, \u201cWhoever comes against one of My saints is challenging Me to fight\u201d thus: \u201cIt means that Allah is expressing: \u2018I will seek revenge against anyone who comes against My saints like an aggressive lion.\u2019\u201d (p. 314)<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is said that after the Seal of Prophets (s), revelation does not descend upon anyone else. Why not? In fact it does, but then it is not called \u2018revelation.\u2019 It is what the Prophet (s) referred to when he said, \u2018The believer sees with the Light of God.\u2019 When the believer looks with God\u2019s Light, he sees all things: the first and the last, the present and the absent. For how can anything be hidden from God\u2019s Light? And if something is hidden, then that is not the Light of God. Therefore the meaning of revelation exists, even if it is not called revelation.\u201d<\/p>\n
From Rama\u2019s\u00a0Fihi ma fihi<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Ibn Taymiyya continues in the same book,\u00a0Majmu\u2019a Fatawi Ibn Taymiyya<\/i>: \u201cWhat is considered as a miracle for a saint is that sometimes the saint might hear something that others do not hear or see something that others do not see, not while asleep, but in a wakened state of vision. He can know things that others cannot know, through revelation or inspiration.\u201d<\/p>\n
In another book,\u00a0Mukhtasar al-Fatawa al-Masriyya<\/i>, published by al-Madani Publishing House, 1980, page 603, he writes: \u201cThe miracles of saints are absolutely true and correct, and acknowledged by all Muslim scholars. The Qur\u2019an has pointed to it in different places, and the Hadith of the Prophet (s) have mentioned it, and whoever denies the miraculous power of saints are innovators or following innovators.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continues quoting the Prophet\u2019s saying about the saints: \u201cYou are the witnesses of Allah on earth.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said (volume 11, page 313): \u201cAllah Almighty will unveil to his saints states that have never been unveiled before and He will give them support without measure. If that saint begins to speak from the things of the unseen, past or present or future, it is considered from the viewpoint of\u00a0Bab al-<\/i>c<\/i><\/sup>ilm al-khariq<\/i>, miraculous knowledge. Anything that a saint does which is from the unseen, for people or for listeners, of healing or teaching knowledge, it is accepted and we must thank Allah for it.\u201d<\/p>\n In the volume entitled\u00a0c<\/i><\/sup>Ilm as-Suluk<\/i>, (\u201cThe Science of Travelling the Way to God\u201d), which consists of the entire 775 pages of volume 10 of\u00a0Majma<\/i>c<\/i><\/sup>a al-Fatawa<\/i>, he says (p. 516): \u201cThe great Sufi shaikhs are well known and accepted, such as: Bayazid al-Bistami, Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani, Junaid ibn Muhammad, Hasan al-Basri, al Fudayl ibn al-Ayyad, Ibrahim bin al-Adham, Abi Sulayman ad-Daarani, Ma\u2019ruf al-Karkhi, Siri as-Saqati, Shaikh Hammad, Shaikh Abul Bayan.<\/p>\n \u201cThose great Sufis were the leaders of humanity, and they were calling to what is right and forbidding what is wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n At present we are in a position to go much further than saying that Ibn Taymiyya simply praised Sufism. We can say with definitiveness that he was an aspirant in the Sufi Way who belonged to more than one tariqat, primarily to the Qadiri Tariqat, of Shaikh Abdul Qadir al-Jilani.<\/p>\n In a unique manuscript of the\u00a0H anbali Yusuf ibn\u00a0c<\/sup>Abd al-Hadi (d. 909 H.\/1503 CE), entitled\u00a0Bad\u2019 al-<\/i>c<\/i><\/sup>ulqa bi labs al-khirqa<\/i>, uncovered in the Princeton University Library, Ibn Taymiyya is listed in a Sufi spiritual genealogy with other well-known\u00a0Hanbali scholars. The links in this genealogy are, in descending order from\u00a0c<\/sup>Abdul Qadir Jilani:<\/p>\n Shaikh\u00a0c<\/sup>Abdul Qadir Jilani (d. 561 H.\/1165 CE)<\/p>\n Abu\u00a0c<\/sup>Umar b. Qudama (d. 607 H.\/1210 CE)<\/p>\n Muwaffaq ad-Din b. Qudama (d. 620 H.\/1223 CE)<\/p>\n Ibn\u00a0c<\/sup>Ali b. Qudama (d. 682 H.\/1283 CE)<\/p>\n Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728 H.\/1328 CE)<\/p>\n Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 751 H.\/1350 CE)<\/p>\n Ibn Rajab (d. 795 H.\/1393 CE)<\/p>\n Furthermore, there is another unique manuscript, also found in the Princeton Library, of the work of Ibn Taymiyya himself, in a book named,\u00a0Targhib al-Mutahabbin fi labs Khirqat al-Mutammayyazan<\/i>\u00a0by Jamal ad-Dan al-Talyani. Here are Ibn Taymiyya\u2019s own words, as quoted from a work of his,\u00a0al-Mas\u2019ala at-Tabraziyya:<\/i>\u00a0\u201dI wore the blessed Sufi cloak of Shaikh\u00a0c<\/sup>Abdul Qadir Jilani, there being between him and me two Sufi shaikhs.\u201d<\/p>\n In another manuscript he said, \u201cI have worn the Sufi cloak of a number of Sufi shaikhs, belonging to various tariqats, among them Abdul Qadir al-Jilani, whose tariqat is the greatest of the well-known ones, may Allah have mercy on him.\u201d<\/p>\n After him, the lineage continues on to his student, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, and his student Ibn Rajab.<\/p>\n The references for what we have mentioned are: \u201cal-Hadi<\/i>\u201d manuscript in Princeton Library, Yahuda Collection, fol. 154a, 169b, 171b-172a; \u201cat-Talyani<\/i>,\u201d manuscript, Chester Beatty, 3296 (8) in Dublin, fol. 67a.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Imam Ibn Taymiyya About Saints and SainthoodImam Ibn Taymiyya mentions in the volume already cited, page 190: \u201cA servant of Allah, Almighty and Exalted, cannot be considered a saint unless he is a true believer. 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Ibn Taymiyya\u2019s Qadiri Lineage as a Sufi Shaikh<\/h4>\n