Shaykh-ul-Islaam Taqee-ud-Deen Abul-'Abbaas Ahmad ibn Abd-il-Haleem ibn Abd-is-Salaam ibn Taymeeyah was born in, 661 AH (1263 CE) in Haran, which is now in Eastern Turkey, near the border of northern Iraq. His family had long been renowned for its learning , among his teachers, was Shams ud-Din Al-Maqdisi, first Hanbali Chief Justice of Syria following the reform of the judiciary by Baibars. The number of Ibn Taymeeyah's teachers exceeds two hundred. Ibn Taymeeyah was barely seventeen, when Qadi Al-Maqdisi authorized him to issue Fatwa (legal verdict). Qadi remembered with pride that it was he who had first permitted an intelligent and learned man like Ibn Taimiyah to give Fatwa. At the same age, he started delivering lectures. When he was thirty, he was offered the office of Chief Justice, but refused, as he could not persuade himself to follow the limitations imposed by the authorities. Imam Ibn Taimiyah's education was essentially that of a Hanbali theologian and jurisconsult. But to his knowledge of early and classical Hanbalism, he added not only that of the other schools of jurisprudence but also that of other literature. He had an extensive knowledge of Quran, Sunnah, Greek philosophy, Islamic history, and religious books of others
Ibn Taimiyyah's books call for an introspection. With each page that you turn you are compelled to evaluate your own condition, "Is that me? Is this evil found in me?" Enjoining Right and Forbidding Wrong though short is a comprehensive book that delves into some of the serious aspects of a believer's life. Ibn Taimiyyah helps the reader identify what is he pursuing in reality.
Good translation from Salim Morgan with Arabic verses of Quran. Ibn Taymiyyah focuses on the method to enjoin good and forbid wrong and its importance in Islam.