Understanding the Reality of Maḥabbah: Ibn Taymiyya’s Treatise on Divine Love

Yasir QadhiAugust 12, 202628 min0 comments

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Tarbiyah Community & Ummah Worship Aqeedah Spirituality Ibn Taymiyyah Islamic Psychology Love of Allah

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In this khutbah, Shaykh Yasir Qadhi summarizes Ibn Taymiyyah's celebrated treatise *Al-Qa'idah Fil Mahabbah*, exploring the nature of love as the driving force behind all human action. He explains that Islam does not ask us to abandon love, but to establish the correct hierarchy of loves — with Allah at the pinnacle — so that every permissible love becomes an act of worship. The lecture covers key insights including love as the root of willpower and action, the two extremes of worship without love and love without shari'ah, and the call for Muslims to let their love of Allah and the ummah motivate real-world engagement and advocacy.

Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi is one of the most influential Islamic scholars and intellectuals in the Western world. Born in Houston to Pakistani parents, he earned a degree in chemical engineering before studying for ten years at the Islamic University of Madinah, where he completed degrees in hadith and Islamic theology, and later earned a PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University. He served for years as Dean of Academic Affairs at AlMaghrib Institute, taught at Rhodes College in Memphis, and now serves as Dean of the Islamic Seminary of America and resident scholar of the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) in Texas. His lecture series on the seerah, "Lives of the Sahaba," and Islamic theology are among the most comprehensive in the English language.

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