Seeking Forgiveness

by Ibn Taymiyyah, Darussalam (Editor)

This is a translation of one of the smaller publications from the works of Shaykh Al-Islam Taqiuddin Ahmad bin 'Abdui-Halim Ibn Taymiyyah. It has been published in Arabic with the title, "Istagfar," or, "Seeking Forgiveness."

This discussion deals with the different views that average people and scholars alike have about the topic of seeking forgiveness:

Does one seek forgiveness for doing something wrong or for violating a prohibition?
Is a person required to seek forgiveness for what he did while unaware?
Is one required to seek forgiveness for what they thought about but did not act upon?
If one repents for a sin and then commits it later, is his original repentance invalid or not?

These questions and more are answered in Shaykh Al-Islam's "Seeking Forgiveness."

55 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 2, 2015

About the author

Taqī ad-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Abd al-Halim ibn Abd al-Salam al-Numayri al-Ḥarrānī (Arabic: تقي الدين أحمد بن عبد الحليم بن عبد السلام النميري الحراني‎, January 22, 1263 - September 26, 1328), known simply Ibn Taymiyyah (ابن تيمية), was an Islamic jurist scholar, muhaddith, theologian, judge, philosopher, and whom many considered as the renewer of the Islamic 7th century. He is known for his diplomatic involvement with the Ilkhanid ruler Ghazan Khan and for his involvement at the Battle of Marj al-Saffar which ended the Mongol invasions of the Levant. A member of the Hanbali school, Ibn Taymiyyah's iconoclastic views on widely accepted Sunni doctrines of his time such as the veneration of saints and the visitation to their tomb-shrines made him unpopular with many scholars and rulers of the time, under whose orders he was imprisoned several times.

A polarising figure in his own times and in the centuries that followed, Ibn Taymiyyah has become one of the most influential medieval writers in contemporary Islam, where his particular interpretations of the Qur'an and the Sunnah and his rejection of some aspects of classical Islamic tradition are believed to have had considerable influence on contemporary ultra-conservative ideologies such as Salafism, and Jihadism. Particular aspects of his teachings had a profound influence on Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, the founder of the Hanbali reform movement practiced in Saudi Arabia, and on other later Wahabi scholars. Moreover, Ibn Taymiyyah's controversial fatwa allowing jihad against other Muslims is referenced by al-Qaeda and other jihadi groups. Their reading of Ibn Taymiyyah's thought has been challenged by recent scholarship.

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two versions of this book on GR and not sure which one to mark as read.