Ibn Taymiyya Quotes
A man will never fear something besides Allah unless it be due to a disease in his heart.
Ibn Taymiyyah, Taqi al-Din. Majmu' al-Fatawa. Vol. 8, King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Quran, 1995, p. 185.
Most people think that this has been a U. S. motto since the founding of the country. But it was not until 1864 that it appeared anywhere on the American scene. The original motto was “E Pluribus Unum”. In 1956, in a rash of anti-Communist fever, Congress adopted this slogan as the official motto and ordered that it be printed on all paper currency which it has been since 1957. God’s entry in the motto or the currency was never implemented by the founding fathers or in early America. It is a relatively modern act put on the currency when religion was part of the relatively modern culture wars.
Taqī ad-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Abd al-Halim ibn Abd al-Salam al-Numayri al-Ḥarrānī, known simply Ibn Taymiyyah (ابن تيمية), was a controversial Islamic jurist scholar, muhaddith, theologian, judge, philosopher, economist, and polymath. 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.
