eTAL-FAWA'ID A COLLECTION OF WISE SAYINGS Imam Ibn Al-Qayyim Rendered into English by: Bayan Translation Services Translation of i yall alll ol ale: Gals Umm AI-Qura For Translation, Publishing and Distribution© Umm AI-Qura for Translation, Publishing & Distribution First Edition 1425 A.H./ 2004 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without written permission from the publisher. For more information, please contact: Umm Al-Qura for translation, publishing and distribution Al-Mansura, Egypt Tel./Fax: (+2) 050 2335157 = (+2) 050 2310222 ummelqura@hotmail.com Bayan List of Contributors: Team Director: Muhammad Fadel Translators:Ashia Adel Said Traore Edited by : Selma Cook Bayan Translation Services www.bayangroup.com info@bayangroup.com Deposition Number : 20835/2003 1.8.B.N. 977- 599- 799-2a4 gall Al-Fawa'id A COLLECTION OF WISE SAYINGS All Rights Reserved ©Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS... TRANSLITERATION SYSTEM .. TRANSLATOR'S NOTES... IMPORTANT RULES: CONDITIONS ONE MUST MEET IN ORDER TO BENEFIT FROM THE QUR'AN CHAPTER: THE BEGINNING OF CREATION, RESURRECTION AND THE PRINCIPLES OF MONOTHEISM MENTIONED IN CHAPTER QAF THE STATUS OF THE PEOPLE OF BADR... A PRECIOUS GEM OF WISDOM:. THE INTERPRETATION OF THE QUR’ANIC VERSE, ..+...-+s0es A PRECIOUS GEM: AL-FATIHAH AND THE WISDOM IT CONTAINS...... 30 A PRECIOUS GEM: TWO WAYS TO KNOW ALLAH... 33 A PRECIOUS GEM: PROPHETIC HADITHS ELIMINATING GRIEF AND DISTRESS... A PRECIOUS GEM: THE THRONE AND THE HEART.....0+. A PRECIOUS GEM: THE CONTENT OF THE QUR'AN. A PRECIOUS GEM: NO PLACE FOR TWO CONTRADICTIONS INTERPRETATION OF CHAPTER AT-TAKATHUR ..esesssees NOTE: PERFECT WISDOM...... CHAPTER ON THE RIGHTS OF ALLAH ....ssccsees A PRECIOUS GEM: TWO KINDS OF JEALOUSY .... CHAPTER: MORE WISDOM... CHAPTER: SALMAN AL-FARISY .... A PRECIOUS GEM: LESSONS... A PRECIOUS GEM: THIS LIFE OF DECEPTION... aesssseeneseneeees 36 seseeseees 68 71vi * AL-FAWA'ID: A Collection of Wise Sayings CHAPTER: A WONDROUS REALITV........... A PRECIOUS GEM: SOURCES OF UNLAWFULNESS.. A PRECIOUS GEM: BENEFITS.. AN IMPORTANT RULE: THERE IS NO POWER OR STRENGTH EXCEPT WITH ALLAH .. A PRECIOUS GEM: KNOWLEDGE IS FOLLOWED BY LOVE A RULE: TWO RESTRAINTS THAT RESCUE... A PRECIOUS GEM: GOOD CHARACTER IS A PART OF PIETY.. A PRECIOUS GEM: EXAMPLES AND LESSONS AN IMPORTANT RULE: EFFECT OF "THERE IS NO GOD BUT ALLAH" AT THE TIME OF DEATH. 0 87 A PRECIOUS GEM: FEAR ALLAH, FOLLOW HIS ORDERS, AND AVOID WHAT HE HAS FORBIDDEN A PRECIOUS GEM: SIN AND DEBT. A PRECIOUS GEM: FIGHTING IN THE CAUSE OF ALLAH CHAPTER: ENMITY BETWEEN THE MIND AND IMAGINATION... A PRECIOUS GEM: THE MESSENGER’S VICTORY... CHAPTER: THE VANITY OF FALSE HOPES...... CHAPTER: WHY WAS ADAM CONSIDERED THE LAST OF CREATURES? eoeee 72, seeeeesenaeee 73 CHAPTER: VARIOUS PRECIOUS GEMS . CHAPTER: THE MANIFESTATION OF THE LORD... CHAPTER: THE MERITS OF ABU BAKR... WARNING: GREAT PEARLS OF WISDOM... WARNING: LESSONS AND WARNINGS. CHAPTER... A PRECIOUS GEM: FORMS OF REJECTING THE QUR'AN AND UNCERTAINTY ABOUT IT... A RULE: THE PERFECTION OF ONESELF.......AL-FAWA'D : A Collection of Wise Syaings * vii A PRECIOUS GEM: ELEMENTS OF KNOWLEDGE... AN eee RULE: THE APPARENT AND HIDDEN ASPECTS OF FAITH... oe 132 A PRECIOUS GEM: TRUST IN ALLAH... A GREAT AND IMPORTANT RULE: “O YOU WHO BELIEVE! ANSWER ALLAH (BY OBEYING HIM) AND (HIS) MESSENGER’ ++ 136 A PRECIOUS GEM: JIHAD IS ORDAINED FOR YOU... wee 143 A PRECIOUS GEM: ASCETICISM DURING THIS WORLDLY LIFE ........ 147 IMPORTANT RULE: THE BASIS OF GOODNESS... PRECIOUS GEMS.. A PRECIOUS AND VALUABLE GEM: THE (RELIGIOUS) SCHOLAR WHOSE DEEDS ARE INCONSISTENT WITH HIS KNOWLEDGE... 160 A PRECIOUS GEM: 165 THE IGNORANT WORSHIPPER AND THE IMMORAL SSE SCHOLAR ... A GREAT AND PRECIOUS GEM: THE BEST ACQUIREMENT FOR THE SOUL CHAPTER: FAITH AND THOSE WHO DISAGREE WITH IT .. A VALUABLE AND PRECIOUS GEM: THE ORIGIN OF HAPPINESS..... 174 A VALUABLE AND IMPORTANT RULE: THE PEOPLE OF GUIDANCE AND THE PEOPLE OF MISGUIDANCE .. CHAPTER: TEN USELESS MATTERS CHAPTER: THE RIGHT TO SUBMIT TO ALLAH.. CHAPTER: THE SWEETNESS OF TRUSTING IN ALLAH... ADVICE: HOW TO SET YOUR STATE ARIGHT ..ssssssesseeeee CHAPTER: THE SIGN OF GOOD WILL.. CHAPTER: ASCETICISM IN THIS WORLDLY LIFE...... CHAPTER: KINDS OF ASCETICISM (ABSTINENCE)......-sesssesseeseee woe 155, 168, 168viii * AL-FAWA'ID: A Collection of Wise Sayings CHAPTER: REMEMBERING ALLAH AND BEING GRATEFUL TO HIM.. 206 CHAPTER: GUIDANCE LEADS TO MORE GUIDANCE AND ABERRATION LEADS TO MORE ABERRATION... a 10 216 CHAPTER: GUIDANCE IS THE PARTNER OF MERCY AND ABERRATION IS THE PARTNER OF MISERY .... 220 CHAPTER: BESTOWING AND PREVENTING... CHAPTER: THE EVIL OF FALSEHOOD ..e...0.es CHAPTER: “AND IT MAY BE THAT YOU DISLIKE A THING WHICH IS GOOD FOR You" 7 vee 230 CHAPTER: THE CONDITIONS OF BEING SATISFIED WITH KNOWLEDGE CHAPTER: THE DANGER OF SUBMITTING TO ONE’S DESIRES... CHAPTER: THE LIMITS OF ONE’S CHARACTERISTICS... CHAPTER: PIETY WITHIN THE HEART... 239 CHAPTER: THE ORIGIN OF PRAISED AND DISPRAISED MORALG..... 242 CHAPTER: THE REQUIREMENTS OF ACHIEVING GREAT TARGETS.. 243 CHAPTER: THE WISDOM OF IBN MAS'UD. veoeee 243, CHAPTER: SINCERITY AND LOVE THAT ARE PRAISED ey COEXIST... ae os CHAPTER: PLEASURE DEPENDS UPON DETERMINATION CHAPTER: THE PIETY OF ‘UMAR BIN ‘ABDUL. “AZIZ sossee CHAPTER: THE BENEFITS OF DESERTING EVIL HABITS. CHAPTER: HINDRANCES.......cssssssvees CHAPTER: ATTACHMENTS... + 259 CHAPTER: THE STATUS OF THE MESSENGER (PEACE BE UPON HIM) ' - 259 CHAPTER: SIGNS OF HAPPINESS AND MISFORTUNE + 260 CHAPTER: DEEDS ARE AN ESTABLISHMENT WHOSE FOUNDATION IS FAITH... 262ALFAWA'ID : A Collection of Wise Syaings * ix CHAPTER: THE BASES OF INFIDELITY. A MOST PRECIOUS GEI CHARACTERISTICS OF THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW ALLAH CHAPTER: THE TREE OF SINCERITY... CHAPTER: DEGREES OF HAPPINESS.. CHAPTER: THE BODY AND SOUL....... CHAPTER: THREE PRECIOUS GEMS.. CHAPTER: KNOWING ALLAH.. CHAPTER: LICIT AND ILLICIT GAINS ...sssssssssssssseseessssssessessssestesssnsvees 285 CHAPTER: CONSOLATION OF THE BELIEVERS. CHAPTER: UNAWARENESS CAUSES HARDSHIP CHAPTER: THE JOURNEY TO ALLAH, EXALTED BE HE, AND ITS OBSTACLES ussssosssossssessvesssaes CHAPTER: KINDS OF GRACE A GREAT PRINCIPLE: THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION sessssssesssssesesscsssvenesenssssesscsss 270 + 286 CHAPTER: THE HEART IS NEVER VOID OF THOUGHTS . CHAPTER: HE WHO DOES NOT KNOW HIMSELF, DOES NOT KNOW HIS. CREATOR .. A PRECIOUS GEM: LEVELS OF KNOWING ALLAH.. A PRECIOUS GEM: ALLAH WILL NOT CHANGE THE CONDITION OF A PEOPLE UNTIL THEY CHANGE THEMSELVES... CHAPTER: THE BEAUTY OF ALLAH, THE EXALTED... CHAPTER: ALLAH IS FULL OF GRACE AND HE LOVES GRACE .. CHAPTER: KINDS OF BEAUTY ....esssssseeseee CHAPTER: SINCERITY OF DETERMINATION AND DEEDG......... A PRECIOUS GEM: THE WILL OF THE SERVANT... CHAPTER: GLORIFYING ALLAH ... A PRECIOUS GEM: LIFE IS A JOURNEY wssssssssossssesseen sesressssssssessssecssces ST 315x + AL-FAWA'ID: A Collection of Wise Sayings A PRECIOUS GEM: OBSERVING........ A PRECIOUS GEM: THE SATANIC WAYS OF TEMPTING... A PRECIOUS GEM: THE WAY TO SUCCESS... eee 316 A PRECIOUS GEM: THERE IS RIGHT AND WRONG IN EVERYTHING.. 319 CHAPTER: THE PEOPLE OF PARADISE AND THOSE OF HELLFIRE 320 CHAPTER: SOME QUALITIES OF MONOTHEISM..... A PRECIOUS GEM: ONLY THE HEART THAT IS FOUNDED ON MONOTHEISM WILL COMPREHEND THE PRECIOUS QUALITIES OF ALLAH ... wesveene 322 A PRECIOUS GE! A A 322 A PRECIOUS GEM: SIGHING WHILE LISTENING TO THE QUR'AI A USEFUL RULE: KINDS OF THOUGHTS... AN_ IMPORTANT RULE: MAKING A REQUEST AND PATIENCE THEREAFTER...... » 328 AN IMPORTANT RULE: THE SERVANT EXISTS BETWEEN THE HANDS OF ALLAH... 329 AN IMPORTANT RULE: THE PLEASURE OF THE HEREAFTER IS MORE - 330 A PRECIOUS GEM: YOU ARE MY PROTECTOR IN THIS LIFE AND IN THE HEREAFTER... yerseseeees 331 AN IMPORTANT RULE: AND THERE IS NOT A THING BUT THE STORES THEREOF ARE WITH US..... eee 332 A PRECIOUS GEM: LOVING ALLAH .... 334 A VALUABLE RULE: ALL BLESSINGS ARE FROM ALLAH..... CHAPTER: THE CAUSES OF FAILURE...