O Christ Worshippers! - A Poem by Ibn al-Qayyim

Ibn al-Qayyim was an important medieval Islamic jurisconsult, theologian, and spiritual writer. Belonging to the Hanbali school of orthodox Sunni jurisprudence, of which he is regarded as “one of the most important thinkers,“ Ibn al-Qayyim is today best remembered as the foremost disciple and student of the fourteenth-century Sunni theologian Shaykh Al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, with whom he was imprisoned in 1326 for dissenting against established tradition during Ibn Taymiyyah’s famous incarceration in the Citadel of Damascus.