Ibn Taymiyyah’s Firasah

Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah remarked: 'O you who are defenceless! Beware the spiritual insight of the godly one, for he sees your hidden deeds from behind a veil: "Beware the spiritual insight of a believer, for he sees with the light of God."1'2 Spiritual insight, or firasah, is a faith-based insight that God casts into the hearts…