The Unleashed Thunderbolts on the Jahmiyyah and the Mu'attilah

Author: Imam Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah

This book is unique in its field and is among the best works ever produced for humanity, elucidating the beliefs of the righteous predecessors – the Companions, the Tabi'in, and their followers – as found in the Qur'an and Sunnah, and refuting doctrines that contradict them with rational and transmitted proofs and extensive narrations from the imams of Islam and the Muslims, which no learned person can afford to be ignorant of. The author, may Allah have mercy on him, exposed the fallacies of the philosophers and the Jahmiyyah, which they used to reject the texts of the Qur'an and Sunnah. He extensively clarified the invalidity of the doctrine of metaphor, explained the intent of those who uphold it, and clarified what they claimed to be metaphorical in the Book of Allah. He also affirmed that reliable reports convey knowledge and that sound hadiths are used to prove Allah's names and attributes. He refuted the sophistries of the theologians in this regard in a way that you will not find compiled in any other book.