Umar on Jahiliyyah: Islam is undone if people do not know ignorance

Ibn Taymiyyah reported: Umar ibn al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, said, “Verily, the bonds of Islam will undone, one by one, only if there arise people in Islam who never knew the time of ignorance.”

Source: Majmū’ al-Fatāwá 15/54

عن ابن تيمية قَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ رضي الله عنه إنَّمَا تُنْقَضُ عُرَى الْإِسْلَامِ عُرْوَةً عُرْوَةً إذَا نَشَأَ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ مَنْ لَمْ يَعْرِفْ الْجَاهِلِيَّةَ

15/54 مجموع فتاوى ابن تيمية التفسير تفسير سورة هود

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Abu Amina Elias
Abu Amina Elias (Justin Parrott) is an academic librarian, researcher, and translator specializing in the Quran, Hadith, and their commentaries. He is a former instructor of Islamic Creed for Mishkah University.
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