✍️Works of Ibn al-Qayyim

The sufficient answer for those who asked about the panacea

الجواب الكافي لمن سأل عن الدواء الشافي

Author: محمد بن أبي بكر بن أيوب بن سعد شمس الدين ابن قيم الجوزية (المتوفى: 751هـ) (d. 751)

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الجواب الكافي لمن سأل عن الدواء الشافي أو الداء والدواء هو كتاب ألفه الإمام ابن قيم الجوزية (691هـ - 751هـ). يتناول في فصوله موضوع إصلاح النفس وتقويمها، وتهذيبها وفق المنظور الإسلامي، حيث يتنقل القاريء بين فصوله ماراً بالنصيحة والتوبيخ، ويعالج الكتاب آفات النفس الأمارة بالسوء، مظهرا عيوبها وزلاتها، ومبيناً سلطة الشهوات عليها، ومحذراً من مكايد الشيطان وحيله في إيقاع النفس بالمعاصي والذنوب، والركون للحياة الدنيا وزينتها. وهو كتاب إسلامي يتناول علم النفس الإسلامي بأدلة عقلية ونقلية. …

Translation

The sufficient answer for those who asked about the cure or the disease and the cure is a book written by Imam Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah (691 AH - 751 AH). In its chapters, it deals with the topic of reforming, correcting, and refining the soul according to the Islamic perspective, as the reader moves between its chapters, passing through advice and rebuke. The book deals with the ills of the soul that leads to evil, showing its faults and mistakes, showing the power of desires over it, and warning against the machinations of Satan and his tricks to cause the soul to commit transgressions and sins, and to rely on worldly life and its adornments. It is an Islamic book that deals with Islamic psychology with rational and textual evidence. …

Topics covered

The sufficient answer for those who asked about the cure = the disease and the cure
Every disease has a cure
The Qur’an is a healing
Prayers ward off harm
The supplication of the heedless
Separating supplication is one of the most beneficial medicines
Chapter on urgency in supplication
A chapter on the evils of supplication
Separate answer times
Separating the circumstances of supplication
Separating the conditions for answered supplication
Chapter on supplication and destiny
Separating the self-inflicted fallacy about causes
Separating those who relied on God’s forgiveness and neglected His commands and prohibitions
Chapter on being deceived by the world
Separating the difference between good thoughts and arrogance
Chapter of hope and wishes
Separating the harm of sins to the heart like the harm of toxins to the body
Separation from the effects of sins
Chapter on the generation of sins
Separating sin weakens the will to do good
Chapter on the Elf of Disobedience
The disgrace of the sinner against his Lord
Chapter on the bad omen of sins
Disobedience brings humiliation

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