Ahmed Ibn Taimiyyah: The Tortured Scholar

Ibn Taimiyyah (May Allah have mercy upon him), had a difficult life full of continuous trials, calamities, and tests. No sooner did one calamity end than a new one emerged. As soon as he is released from one prison, he is again locked up in another.

How Do We Know God Is One?

Man, nature, has an inherent inborn recognition of his Creator, but how does man recognize God? Not His greatest act of creation, how yet, from all His creatures, man is distinguished?