How do love, humility and submission complete servitude to Allah?
2026-09-21
T32 · Ibn Taymiyyah
Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah
شيخ الإسلام أحمد بن تيمية
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فَقَوْلُهُ: {لَا إلَهَ إلَّا أَنْتَ} فِيهِ إثْبَاتُ انْفِرَادِهِ بِالْإِلَهِيَّةِ وَالْإِلَهِيَّةُ تَتَضَمَّنُ كَمَالَ عِلْمِهِ وَقُدْرَتِهِ وَرَحْمَتِهِ وَحِكْمَتِهِ فَفِيهَا إثْبَاتُ إحْسَانِهِ إلَى الْعِبَادِ فَإِنَّ "الْإِلَهَ" هُوَ الْمَأْلُوهُ وَالْمَأْلُوهُ هُوَ الَّذِي يَسْتَحِقُّ أَنْ يُعْبَدَ وَكَوْنُهُ يَسْتَحِقُّ أَنْ يُعْبَدَ هُوَ بِمَا اتَّصَفَ بِهِ مِنْ الصِّفَاتِ الَّتِي تَسْتَلْزِمُ أَنْ يَكُونَ هُوَ الْمَحْبُوبَ غَايَةَ الْحُبِّ الْمَخْضُوعَ لَهُ غَايَةَ الْخُضُوعِ؛ وَالْعِبَادَةُ تَتَضَمَّنُ غَايَةَ الْحُبِّ بِغَايَةِ الذُّلِّ.
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His statement, “There is no deity except You,” affirms that He alone possesses divinity. Divinity includes the perfection of His knowledge, power, mercy, and wisdom, so it affirms His goodness toward His servants. The ilāh is the maʾlūh [the one worshipped], and the maʾlūh is the One who deserves to be worshipped. His deserving to be worshipped is because of the attributes He possesses, which require that He be loved with the utmost love and submitted to with the utmost submission. Worship includes the utmost love together with the utmost humility.
Source and editorial notes
Majmūʿ al-Fatāwā 10/249
مجموع الفتاوى
Majmūʿ al-Fatāwā
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