Understanding Ibn Taymiyyah's Writings

You mentioned the books of Ibn Taymiyyah.

How do you feel,

Mr. Ayman, when you see that the books of Ibn Taymiyyah are still, to this moment,

glorified and marketed, and read as the true Islam?

وتقرأ على أنها الإسلام الصحيح؟

I see that the books of Ibn Taymiyyah, in short, are like a Lamborghini,

هي مثل اللامبورغيني، من لا يعرف قيادتها لا يركبها، أليس كذلك؟

So you are comparing the books of Ibn Taymiyyah to a Lamborghini?

So you are comparing the books of Ibn Taymiyyah to a Lamborghini?

Yes, to a Lamborghini. If you don't… You gave it value.

Yes, it has value, because in the end,

Ibn Taymiyyah, if we are fair to him, was a philosopher,

But he issued fatwas to kill people.

But he also lived in a strange and difficult period,

He lived during the period of Tamerlane's invasion of his city, But regardless…

ولكن بغض النظر... حتى حين حُرق

Even when the Jordanian pilot, more than ten years ago,

a fatwa from the books of Ibn Taymiyyah was used to burn him inside a cage.

بحرفه داخل قفص.

I mean, what humanity is this? What ideology is this? What philosophy is this?

أي فلسفة هذه؟

But Ibn Taymiyyah did not issue a fatwa to burn the Jordanian pilot,

the ones who issued

but they drew from Ibn Taymiyyah, as was said at the time.

ISIS is just like Al- Qaeda, just like Sayid Qutb, They slandered Ibn Taymiyyah,

افتروا على ابن تيمية وأخذوا نصوص ابن تيمية ولووها لي الأعناق

وذكروها على أن هذه هي الفتوى. الإنسان

A person, when looking at a mufti,

must also look at the mufti's history,

and look at the reality in which the mufti lived, and based on that,

know whether to take from him or not. Therefore...

But we are in the year 2026.

Yes, artificial intelligence is dominating,

meaning we are witnessing the very beginning of the dominance of artificial

intelligence over the world, meaning in five years,

we don't know what the world will be like.

The books of Ibn Taymiyyah— do you personally still trust your son or grandson

ما زلت تثق بأن يقرأها ابنك أو حفيدك؟

I do not let anyone read Ibn Taymiyyah's books until they have completed what

إلا بعد أن يكمل ما هو مطلوب

is required of cultural awareness regarding Islamic creed, to understand,

in short, what they are reading.

لكن للقراءة للفهم. أنت تقرأ

You read In short, in 3D, the three dimensions:

you read the text, you read who the author of the text is,

تقرأ من هو كاتب النص،

and you read the history of what happened during the author's lifetime.

Based on this, these are what are called the three dimensions of reading.

If you are able to drive this Lamborghini, in short, if you are able

باختصار، إذا أنت قادر على أن تقرأ من خلال قراءة ثلاثية الأبعاد

then you will know what to take and what to leave.