His book Minhaj Al-Sunnah, too, is replete with calumnies and insults against Shias. And once when he was dumfounded against the great Allamah Hassan ibn Yusuf Ibn Mutahhar Hilli, he used the epithet Ibn Munajjas for him which means son of dirty vs. When referring to the Imam of the Ash’aris he would use unscientific attributes. For example, when speaking of the Sufi beliefs he used to harshly insult the individuals like the great mystic Muḥyiddin ibn Arabi. He never observed scientific principles in his debates. Ibn Taymiyyah was very aggressive and vitriolic both in the verbal debates and writing. For instance, most of his works were written in reaction to the Sufi, Shia, Ash’ari Jewish and Christian opponents. The works of Ibn Taymiyyah were written in the manner of rejecting his critics by any means possible. Instead of struggling against the sworn enemies of Islam (Israel and the United States), they have pledged allegiance with them and act as their stooges in the Islamic world. A quick look at the performance of the Wahhabis indicates the same trend in the modern world. Unfortunately, his struggles and going exile were not for the scared religion of Islam but because of seditionist efforts among Muslims. He invented the Salafi school in the same century. Taqī ad-Dīn Abu 'l-`Abbās Ahmad ibn Taymiyyah lived in the 7th century AH. The Wahhabi Salafis claim to follow the ideas and thoughts of Ahmad ibn Hanbal but the Hanbali scholars have never recognized them as an Islamic denomination.
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