How to repel doubts- Ibn Taymiyyah

Imam Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah writes, 

“Shaykh Al-Islam (Ibn Taymiyyah), God be pleased with him, said to me, when I presented to him one objection (îrâd) after another, 

‘Do not make your heart like a sponge for objections and doubts, such that it cannot ripen but with them, but rather like polished glass, so doubts may pass over its surface but do not stay within: its purity makes you see them, and its firmness allows you to repel them’. 

Or something to this effect. I do not know of any other advice that has helped me repel doubts like this one”. 

-Sharaf Al-Dîn, Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya, p. 102; see Miftâ^ dâr Al-saâdah, Cairo, Matba'at Al-Saâdah, 1905, vol. 1, p. 148

Taken From:

Steps of the Seekers (Madarij al-Salikin) Translator’s Introduction BY DR OVAMIR ANJUM