The Truth Behind Ibn Taymiyyah And Philosophy

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[ashkamalim]

Be careful of your sister from Yemen scam.

[Beyond]

Great video, Ibn Taymiyyah's problem with philosophy is people engaging in it are not willing to submit to revelation & would reject Allah's attributes based on a corrupt model conceived by earlier Hellenistic philosophers, as if they literally believe in a "reason" logos as intermediate god that they must pass though to access God!!
And after a certain point, to not submit when evidence are clear is to lose Allah grace & to let your whims & satan whispers lead you astray.
بارك الله فيكم ونفع بكم

[KnowledgeNorth]

The problem here is that "philosophy" and "rationality/rational proofs/reasoning" are being used synonymously.
Ibn Taymiyya was fundamentally opposed to philosophy as a distinct framework for deriving/establishing Islamic belief because philosophy in the lexicon of the Salaf was not a thing distinct from theo-philosophy of ancient Hellenic (and Indic and other) polytheists. Thereafter, the mutakallima/Ahl al-Kalam, who were Ibn Taymiyya's principle opponents, drew upon the same Aristotelian/Platonic [theo] philosophical framework - via kalam - to derive, contrive and arrive at their innovated credos. For Ibn Taymiyya and the Salaf, philosophy was the pursuit of heretics, apostates and atheists, while kalam was the pursuit of deviants and innovators - hence the Salaf dispraised them. Conversely, sound rationale/ reason/ logic/ common sense are praised in the religion. Even philosophy as understood in the Western school today, as an academic discipline, still has baggage which precludes it from being equated with reasonableness and rationality without serious caveats and qualification.

[time..travel]

I am very saddened by the news of your illness. I am praying for your quick recovery. May Allah SWT protect you brother. Ameen

[al-moatasem]

May Allah heal you
Your brother from Egypt

[LaithAboabed]

اللهم رب الناس اذهب الباس واشف وانت الشافي لا شفاء الا شفاء لا يغادر سقما

[abdulraheemsaliu]

I pray for your good health during the time i breaks my fast today. I will do the same tomorrow, In Shaa Allah.
May Allah heal you, Amen thumma Amen. We love you, from Nigeria❤❤❤

[raidaradham]

May Allah grant you Shifa' my dear brother, always providing us fantastic content, love from Perth, Australia

[eldagon]

May Allah heal you and make you even stronger in your iman, brother.

[theIslampill]

“the establishment and recognition of the Creator is innate
[and] necessary in the souls of all people (fiṭrī ḍarūrī fī nufūs al-nās),
even though some people have done something to corrupt their nature
such that they need an inference (naẓar) to achieve knowledge [of God].
This is the opinion of the majority of people, as well as the skilled debaters (ḥadhāq al-nuẓẓār),
that knowledge of God is sometimes achieved by necessity
[i.e. in “basic” immediate fashion] and other times by inference.”
Majmū‘ Fatāwā (1995) vol. 16, 458.

[Albaydawi]

Love these videos akhi Jake, more Aqeedah videos please! May Allah make you and us sincere and reward you 🤲

[brhoommozlm]

I ask Allah to grant you a healing that never leaves any disease behind.


أللهم اشف أخانا جيك شفاء لا يغادر سقما 🤲

[FathitheMuslim]

Asalamualaykum Jake, please post more of these types of videos very educational, btw I recently finished your course on trinity loved it

[Narrator_of_Tarikh]

Ibn Taymiyya and Al-Ghazali are probably some of the most underappreciated figures in history...

[Nawaf-qkmu]

May Allah have mercy on the Sheikh of Islam

[Strijder]

In this passage of sharh aqidatul isfahiniyya Ibn taymiyya explicitly confirmed and explained the contingency argument:

وأما المقدمة الثانية: وهي أن الممكن لا بد له من واجب فقد نبه على هذه المقدمة بقوله: (لاستحالة وجودها بنفسها) فإن الممكن هو الذي يقبل الوجود والعدم كما نشاهده من المحدثات، وما كان قابلا للوجود والعدم لم يكن وجوده بنفسه كما قال تعالى: أَمْ خُلِقُوا مِنْ غَيْرِ شَيْءٍ أَمْ هُمُ الْخالِقُونَ (٣٥) «١»، يقول سبحانه:
أحدثوا من غير محدث أم هم أحدثوا أنفسهم، ومعلوم أن الشيء لا يوجد نفسه فالممكن الذي ليس له من نفسه وجود ولا عدم لا يكون موجودا بنفسه بل إن حصل ما يوجده وإلا كان معدوما، وكل ما أمكن وجوده بدل عن عدمه وعدمه بدل عن وجوده فليس له من نفسه وجود ولا عدم، وهذا بيّن.
ومما يقرره أن ما يمكن عدمه بدلا عن وجوده لا يكون وجوده بنفسه إذ لو كان وجوده بنفسه لكان واجبا بنفسه، ولو كان واجبا بنفسه لم يقبل العدم، وهو قد قبل العدم فليس موجودا بنفسه لكان واجبا بنفسه، يقرر ذلك أن ما كان موجودا فإما أن يكون مفتقرا في وجوده إلى غيره، وإما أن لا يكون، فإن كان مفتقرا في وجوده إلى غيره لم يكن وجوده بنفسه بل بذلك الغير الذي هو مفتقر إليه أو به وبذلك الغير، فعلى التقديرين لا يكون وجوده بنفسه، وإن لم يكن مفتقرا في وجوده إلى غيره كان موجودا بنفسه فالموجود بنفسه لا يكون مفتقرا إلى غيره، والمفتقر إلى غيره لا يكون موجودا بنفسه، فالموجود بنفسه الذي لا يفتقر إلى غيره واجب بنفسه، إذ نفسه كافية في وجوده فلا يتوقف وجوده على شيء غير إنيته، إن قدر أن إنيته شيء غير وجوده، وإن قدر أن إنيته هي وجوده كما هو قول أهل السنة كان قول القائل: موجودا بنفسه أي هويته ثابتة بهويته فحيث قدرت هويته لم يمكن عدمها، فالموجود بنفسه لا يقبل العدم، وما قبل العدم فليس موجودا بنفسه فيفتقر إلى
غيره فكل ممكن مفتقر إلى غيره.

[thepoetesskhansaa]

18:05 they say in Arabic that a bedouin man sent his son to a university to be educated, and on one of his visits back home the father said to his son, proud of him for getting educated, "Tell me some of what you have learned at the university."
So the son opens his book and starts reading: "The rational proofs of Allah's existence are as follows"
At which point the bedouin father smacks him across his head and exclaims, "Do I need logical proof as to the existence of the Almighty??"

It's supposed to be a funny way to illustrate this exact point

[DaudBurke]

Also, any person who has actually read the works of Ibn Taymiyyah when it comes to these issues wouldn't come to the conclusion that a lot of the people throw out there. Most of the nonsense that people throw out there in refutation of Salafis, Atheris, and Ibn Taymiyyah actually comes from a lack of them knowing what Ibn Taymiyyah actually contributed and how well-versed he was when it comes to philosophy, even philosophy that we would never hear about now.

[essa]

May Allah mercy the Soul of Shiekh Al-Islam

قال شيخ الاسلام ابن تيمية رحمه الله:-
ما خالف العقل الصريح فهو باطل. وليس في الكتاب والسنة والإجماع باطل. ولكن فيه ألفاظا قد لا يفهمها بعض الناس، أو يفهمون منها معنى باطلا، فالآفة منهم، لا مِنْ الكتاب والسنة
مجموع الفتاوى490/11

Translation:-
Sheikh Al-Islam Ibn Teymeah siad in majmoo' al-fatawa vol 11 page 490:-
( Whatever against “clear” intellect is falsehood. And by full agreement from all, there is no falsehood in Quran and Sunnah. But, there are some words which some people will not understand or they will understand from it a false meaning. So, the problem is them, Not Quran and Sunnah )

[Sigmaman_]

May allah bless you ahlu asunah are the most intelligent people ❤❤