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Ibn Taymiyyah on the True Causes of Rectification and Corruption

Posted by Abu Iyaad
Translated September 2014
Filed under Manhaj



Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah (رحمه الله) said:[1]

In summary, shirk and invoking other than Allāh and setting up a deity besides Him or one who is obeyed and followed besides the Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم) is the greatest corruption on the Earth.

And there is no rectification for it and nor its people except that Allāh alone should be the one worshipped, that invocation is for Him alone, not for others and that obedience and adherence is for the Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم).

And as for the one besides [the Messenger], his obedience is only obligatory if he commands with obedience to the Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم). If he commands with disobedience to [the Messenger], then there is no hearing and no obeying.

For Allāh rectified the Earth by His Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم) and by His religion and by commanding with Tawḥīd. He prohibited from causing corruption therein through Shirk and opposition to His Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم).

And whoever reflects upon every rectification on the Earth (will find) its cause to be the Tawḥid of Allāh and His worship and obedience to His Messenger. And every evil in the world, every trial, tribulation, drought and subjugation by an enemy and other than that, its cause is opposition to the Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم) and calling upon other than Allāh.

And whoever reflects upon this as it truly should be reflected upon, will find this affair to be just like that with respect to himself and also in others both generally and specifically and there is no might nor power except by Allāh.

This is golden speech and outlines a reality that is deliberately thrown to the side by the kharijite political jamāʿāt of the 20th and 21st centuries who turned their backs on the methodology of the Prophets in daʿwah to Allāh and adopted the methodologies of the Marxists, Communists, Socialists and other revolutionaries.

Their slogans (freedom, liberty, justice) echo those of Dhul-Khuwaysarah, Abdullāh bin Sabaʿ, Mukhtār al-Thaqafī and every other agitator in history who desired corruption in the worldly affairs so as to gain the small portion of it craved by his soul.

Tawḥīd and Ittibāʾ are the foundation of rectification of the servant and the land, and all the Prophets and Messengers began with this foundation before addressing any other evils.

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Footnotes
1. Majmūʿ al-Fatāwā (15/24).

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