Posted by Abu Iyaad
Translated
December 2013
Filed under Sects & Innovations
Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah (رحمه الله) said:[1]
And the last of the khulafāʾ of Banī Umayyah, Marwān bin Muḥammad al-Jaʿdī, ascribed himself to this Jaʾd [bin Dirham]. The misfortune of this returned back upon him such that the [Umayyad] state came to an end.
For when innovations which oppose the ḍīn of the Messengers appear, Allāh seeks revenge from whoever opposes the Messengers and aids them (the Messengers)... When hypocrisy, innovations and sinfulness (fujūr) appeared which were in opposition to the dīn of the Messengers, the enemies were empowered over them.
Thus, Christian Rome came out to Shām and the Jazīrah (peninsula), time after time, and they gradually took the coastal regions of Shām, bit by bit until they took Bayt al-Maqdis at the end of the fourth century (hijrah). And after a period they besieged Damascus, and (in this period) the people of Shām were in the worst of situations in between the Christians (Crusaders) and the Hypocrites, Heretics [Bāṭiniyyah ʿUbaydiyyah of North Africa]...
And likewise when the people of the East were established upon Islām they were aided against the pagan disbelievers from the Turks, India, China and others. But when there appeared from them whatever appeared of innovations, deviation (ilḥād) and sinfulness, the disbelievers[2] were unleashed against them...
And the cause of those (enemies) entering the lands of the Muslims was the appearance of deviation (ilḥād), hypocrisy (nifāq) and innovations (bidaʿ)....
And the intent here is that the cause of the decline (and cessation) of the state of Banū Umayyah was this Jaʿd bin Dirham, the denier [of Allāh's attributes] and [other] causes besides it which necessitated its disappearance.
At the end of their state al-Jahm bin Ṣafwān appeared in Khurasān. It has been said his origin is from Tirmidh, and he manifested the statement of the negators [of the names and attributes] from the Jahmiyyah...
Comment:
Shaykh al-Islām refers here to the Crusaders from the West and the Mongols and their likes from the East.
When Muslims turned away from sound creed and uprightness and entered into innovations, such as negation of Allāh’s Attributes, negation of al-Qadar, and entering into Irjāʾ, and falling into sins and disobedience, then Allāh unleashed these nations against the Muslims, out of vengeance for His Messengers, in that they and what they called to had been opposed and their cause, turned away from.
And we can add to this also, the era of colonialism which occurred after Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah, when the most evil of innovations which had already appeared prior to Ibn Taymiyyah, when they spread further in the ummah. The unity of existence (waḥdat al-wujūd), divine union (ittiḥād), and abolition of the Sharīʿah, meaning its commands and prohibitions, as is found among the Ṣūfīs who believe in the ḍḥāhir and the bāṭin,[3] the Ḥaqīqah and the Sharīʿah[4] and so on.
When these innovations comprising outright disbelief appeared and spread further and further, it brought on a new era of subjugation by the enemies.
Footnotes
1. Majmūʿ al-Fatāwā (13/177-182 abridged).2. Referring to the Mongols, Tartars from the east.
3. There are inner realities and interpretations of the verses of the Qurʾān that only the elite know and the outward appearances and meanings which are for the commoners.
4. Meaning that Sharīʿah commands and prohibitions are for the commoners only, and as for the elite who understand higher realities, such as all of existence being one (there is no Creator and created), then they are not bound by any of these obligations.
