Translation: Kamal Ololade
Shaykhu-l-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah - may Allaah have mercy on him - said:
"When atheism emerged in Syria, Egypt and the Arabian pennisula as well as innovation in the religion, Allaah unleashed the Kuffaar on them and when they revived what they revived of Islam and resisted the atheists and innovators Allaah granted them victory over the kuffaar."
Al-Furqaan Bayna al-Haqq Wal Butlaan p. 536.