Shaykhul Islām ibn Taymiyyah (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: So these three are necessary: knowledge, kindness and patience: “Knowledge before commanding [good or forbidding evil], kindness while doing it, and patience after it.”
Shaykhul Islām ibn Taymiyyah (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “When a single person possess both good and evil, wickedness and obedience, sunnah and innovation, he deserves allegiance and reward in accordance with the level of good that he has, and he deserves enmity and punishment in accordance with the level of evil that he has, so he receives from both of these. This is the basic rule concerning which Ahlus-Sunnah Wal-Jamā'ah are agreed, while the khwāraij, the muta'zilah, and those who agree with them oppose them in it.”
Shaykhul Islām ibn Taymiyyah (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of tawḥīd and reaping the fruits of righteous actions.”
Shaykhul Islām ibn Taymiyyah (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “Allāh is more merciful to His slaves than the most merciful of mothers to her child, for the One Who made her merciful must be more merciful than her.”
Shaykhul Islām ibn Taymiyyah (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “Whoever speaks about the religion [al-Islām] without knowledge is a liar. Even if he had not intended to lie.”
