Maulana Abul Hasan Nadwi (rahmatullah alayh) has written in praise of Ibn Taimiyyah.

Answer

Maulana Nadwi' s view regarding Ibn Taimiyyah does not alter the truth. The errors of Ulama are not proof in the Shariah. The honourable Maulana Nadwi (rahmatullah alayh) had grievously erred in his appraisal of Ibn Taimiyyah.

Another glaring error which the honourable Maulana Sahib had committed was to sign the fatwa together with a group of palace Ulama to grant the Saudi king of the time authority to permit the establishment of U.S. military bases in Saudi Arabia, and to launch the attack against Iraq from the Holy Land of Arabia. This was in the first Gulf War. The Maulana's constant association with the Saudi royal family and the establishment/palace Ulama had blurred his judgment, hence he was a party to the destruction of Iraq and an active supporter of the invasion of a Muslim country by the kaafir U.S., and this too from the Holy Land of Arabia. On his death-bed, Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) commanded the Sahaabah: "Expel the Yahood and Nasaara from Jazeeratul Arab (the Arabian Peninsual). The baatil fatwa of these Ulama had opened the door for U.S. domination of Arabia fourteen centuries after the demise of Nabi-e-Kareem (sallallahu alayhi wasallam).

Even sincere and great Ulama also er r and become trapped in nafsaaniyat. The Haqq overrides the v i e w o f M a u l a n a N a d w i (rahmatullah alayh). May Allah Ta'ala save us from the evils of our nafs and the plots and snares of shaitaan.