Explanation of Al-Qasidah Al-Lamiyah - The Lamiyah poem ascribed to Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah

By: Explanation by: 'Allamah Ahmad b. Yahya al-Najmi Publisher: Hikmah Publications Paperback, 75 pages   Description from back of book: This is a translation of Shaykh Aḥmad al-Najmī’s explanation of al-Qāṣīdah al-Lāmīyah, which is ascribed to Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymīyah. It comprises of only 16 verses of poetry, clarifying a number of core beliefs of Ahl al-Sunnah Wa al-Jamāʿah. Thus, it is easy to memorize, and a great starting point for a child or a beginner in knowledge. This poem has a written manuscript in Jāmiʿah Malik Saud (no. 6/1928), and it is found alongside two other works, al-Wasīyah al-Kubra and al-Adillah al-Bayyinah, both of which are known works of Ibn Taymīyah. It has been mentioned by the Scholar of Iraq, Nʿumān al-Ālūsī, in his excellent book Jalā al-ʿAynayn Lī Muhākamah al-Aḥmadayn, and Shaykh ʿAbd al-Salām b. Burjis mentioned this poem as being amongst the poetry of Ibn Taymīyah in his work al-Ṣaḥīḥ Min al-Naẓm al-Faṣīḥ Lī Shaykh al-Islām Ibn T