About
A theological epistle by Ibn Taymiyya, written in response to inquiries from Ṣafad, addressing core matters of creed (ʿaqīdah), divine attributes, and critiques of speculative theology, in line with the methodology of Ahl al-Sunnah.
Table of contents
The First Volume
The Three Characteristics of Prophethood According to the Philosophers
The Possibility of Beginningless Events According to the Philosophers and the Imams of the Religious Sects
The Treatise of al-Razi on the Concealed Secret
Treatise on the Batiniyya and the Philosophers Regarding the Denial of Attributes
Treatise on Sophistical Involuntariness
The philosophers’ denial of the attributes by rejecting the concept of composition
Return to the Discussion of the Miracles of the Prophets and a General Refutation of the Philosophers’ View
Answering the Statements in the Question from Various Angles
Treatise on the Philosophers Before Aristotle
The Discourses of the Philosophers Affiliated with Islam
The Acknowledgment by Most Nations of the Existence of Angels and Jinn
The Refutation of the Sufis Asserting the Unity of Being
The Refutation of Their Preferring the Seal of the Saints to the Seal of the Messengers
The Discourse on al-Had by Ibn al-ʿArabī
The Theologians’ Method in Proving the Maker
The approach of the atheistic philosophers and the adherents of the Unity of Being doctrine is deficient in many respects.
The Discussion on Ibn al-Arabi and Ibn Sabain
The Discourse on Ibn Hud
The Discourse on Allegorical Interpretation
Refutation of the People of al-Ihata Who Assert Absolute Existence
The Refutation of Ibn Sīnā’s Assertion that the Necessary Existent Is the Absolute on the Condition of Absoluteness
The Second Volume
Al-Sijistani’s Discourse in His Book al-Iftikhar
A Return to Ibn Sina’s Discourse and His Method Concerning the Necessary Being
The Treatise of Ibn Kilab and the Ashʿarites on the Qurʾān
The Refutation of Other Sects
The correct view is that the Throne was created before the Pen
A Return to the Discourse on the Question of God’s Speech and God’s Actions
The Response of al-Razi and al-Armawi Is Invalid on Several Grounds
Ibn Sina’s Discourse on the Necessary Existent
What the philosophers have said about it is incomplete and lacking in many respects.
Islam is the religion of all the prophets, and Allah accepts from no one any religion other than the religion of Islam.
Religion is one—namely Islam—while the legal systems vary.
Islam is the middle path among religions, and the People of the Sunnah are the middle within Islam.
Abu al-Barakat’s Discourse on “al-Mu‘tabar”