A text attributed to Ibn Taymiyyah regarding the excuse of one who celebrates the Mawlid
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, a questioner says: People are circulating these days a text from Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) in *Iqtida' al-Sirat al-Mustaqim* in which he stated that he excuses the one who celebrates the Mawlid, and perhaps they have acted upon that. He asks: Have you come across this text, and what is its explanation?
Answer:
Yes, this is found in Ibn al-Qayyim’s book, in the book *Ikhtiyarat Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah*.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, a questioner says: People are circulating these days a text from Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) in *Iqtida' al-Sirat al-Mustaqim* in which he stated that he excuses the one who celebrates the Mawlid, and perhaps they have acted upon that. He asks: Have you come across this text, and what is its explanation?
Answer:
Yes, this is found in Ibn al-Qayyim’s book, in the book *Ikhtiyarat Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah*.
Source
إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان-13- 03-1441هـ — alfawzan.live (51:15)
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