of the hearts of all mankind—the land of the Two Holy Mosques, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Indeed, this brief treatise furnishes the clearest rebuttal to anyone who accuses this blessed state, or the call of Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, or the call of Shaykh al-Islam Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, of advocating or inciting terrorism. The creed and intellectual legacy of Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb is but a mirror image of that of Ibn Taymiyyah—something known to anyone possessed of the slightest knowledge and understanding.

That some Muslim youth have chosen paths of injustice and aggression does not mean we make others bear their crime and sin; Islam has taught us that no soul bears the burden of another.

I also beseech Allah, exalted is He, to make this concise treatise a means by which many of the Ummah’s youth—those who have sunk into the mire of extremist thought that spills innocent blood while claiming it is the way of the Master of the Prophets—are brought back to soundness.

And may He, through it, rectify the many misconceptions regarding the stance of the two Shaykhs of Islam, Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, on fighting the unbelievers,