The Dispraise of Al-Hawaa - Part 1 of 3 - Al Quran wa Sunnah

Preface
Introducing Imaam Ibnul (or Ibn) Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah:
He is Muhammad Bin Abee Bakr Bin Sa'd Bin Hareez Az-Zur'ee, Ad-Dimishqee, Abu
'Abdullaah, known as Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah, which means the son of the person
(his father was a scholar himself and a devout worshipper) who was in charge of the
Jawziyyah learning center in Damascus,
He was born on the 7th day of Safar 691HJ/1292C.E., 4 possibly in
Damascus. At the age of seven, he began to attend the learning circles of twenty
five renowned scholars of his times. He excelled in many disciplines including
Tafseer, Hadeeth, fiqh, Usool-ud-deen (Fundamentals of the Deen\ and Arabic
language.
Ibn Katheer , as well as other scholars, wrote many good things about his worship and
Thikr. Even the people of Makkah witnessed his strong devotion in worship when he
performed Hajj.
He met Shayekh-ul-Islaam Ahmad Ibn Taymeeyah in 712/1312 and stayed in his
company until the death of Ibn Taymeeyah in 728/1328. He was greatly influenced by
Shayekh-ul-Islaam but he never copied him, for he was not a blind imitator. While
studying with Ibn Taymeeyah, he discovered that he himself had some wrong understandings
adopted by those who do not affirm the meanings of Allaah's Names and
Attributes as they came in the Qur'aan and (or) authentic Sunnah. He explained his
repentance in a great poem known
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The Years are presented first in the Islaamic Hijri calendar (Hj), then it is followed by the
corresponding year in the Christian Era (C.E.) This system is adopted throughout the
entire book.
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