“The jihad against the soul is the foundation for the Jihad against the disbelievers and hypocrites.”

— Ibn Taymiyyah

Ibn Taymiyyah, Diseases of the heart and their cures https://www.amazon.com/Diseases-Hearts-Their-Cures-Taymiyyah/dp/0953647633

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Sunni Islamic scholar and theologian, who lived during the … 1263–1328

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