Minhaj al-Sunnah by Ibn Taymiyyah in the English language!

‘Minhaj al-Sunnah’ (the full Arabic title of the book: منهاج السنة النبوية في نقض كلام الشيعة والقدرية), or ‘The Methodology of the Prophetic Sunnah in Refuting the Statements of the Shia and the Qadariyyah’, stands as one of the many masterpieces by Shaykh al-Islam Taqi al-Din Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Abd al-Halim ibn Abd al-Salam al-Numayri al-Harrani, commonly known as Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy upon him).

Ibn Taymiyyah was of Arab and Iranic-Kurdish descent

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Three people destroy religion: kings, corrupt theologians, and monks

Ibn Abi al-izz (d. 792 AH) said: “Evil rulers dishonour the Shari‘ah by pursuing wrong policies and replacing its just laws with their own unjust regulations. They prefer them to the rule of Allah. Corrupt theologians are the ones who violate the Shari’ah with their opinions and false logic, allowing what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, and vice versa, while neglecting what the Shari’ah accepts.

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