✍️Works of Ibn al-Qayyim

Bringing souls to the land of joy

حادي الأرواح إلى بلاد الأفراح

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

About this work

حادي الأرواح إلى بلاد الأفراح كتاب من تأليف ابن قيم الجوزية يصف فيه الجنة وصفا يكون ممتعا لقارئه ومشوقا للناظر فيه وصف فيه أهلها وطعامهم وشرابهم وعرائسهم من الحور العين وصفاتهم كما ذكر عدة أبواب الجنة وسعت أبوابها ودرجات الجنة والسابقين من هذه الأمة إليها وصفتهم وذكر أصناف أهل الجنة الذي ضمنت لهم دون غيرهم مع وصف تربة الجنة ونورها وقصورها وأشجارها وشراب أهلها وطعامهم ولباسهم وخيامهم وسررهم وخدمهم وغلمانهم وكما ذكر نساء أهل الجنة وأصنافهن وحسنهن وجمالهن الظاهر والباطن وأعظم باب من أبواب الكتاب هو ذكر نظر أهل الجنة إلى ربهم جهرة مستنداً في كل ما يذكره إلى القرآن الكريم والأحاديث النبوية، وقد قسم …

Translation

The Guide of Souls to the Land of Joy is a book written by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, in which he describes Paradise with a description that will be enjoyable for its reader and interesting for the one who looks at it. He describes its people, their food and drink, their brides from among the beautiful houris, and their characteristics. He also mentioned the many gates of Paradise, the expansion of its gates, the degrees of Paradise, and the descriptions of those who preceded this nation from this nation, and he mentioned the types of the people of Paradise that were guaranteed to them to the exclusion of others, along with a description of the soil of Paradise, its light, its palaces, its trees, the drink of its people, their food, and their clothing. And their tents, and their beds, and their servants and their servants, and as he mentioned the women of the people of Paradise, their types, their beauty, and their apparent and hidden beauty, and the greatest chapter of the Book is the mention of the people of Paradise looking at their Lord openly, basing everything he mentions on the Holy Qur’an and the Prophetic hadiths, and he divided…

Topics covered

introduction
Chapter One: Explaining the existence of Paradise now
Chapter Seven: Mentioning the similitude of those who claim that Paradise has not been created yet
Chapter Eight: In response to what this sect argued against
Chapter Nine: Mentioning the number of chapters
Chapter Ten: In mentioning the breadth of its chapters
Chapter Eleven: On the nature of its doors and that they have a ring
Chapter Twelve: In mentioning the distance between the door and the door
Chapter Thirteen: On the location of Paradise and where it is
Chapter Fourteen: On the key to heaven
Chapter Seventeen: On the degrees of Paradise
Chapter Eighteen: Mentioning the highest levels and the name of that level
Chapter Twenty-Five: In mentioning the first one who knocks on the door of Paradise
Chapter Twenty-Six: In mentioning the first nations to enter Paradise
Chapter Thirty-Five: In mentioning its light and whiteness
Chapter Thirty-Six: In mentioning its rooms, palaces, and cabins
Chapter Forty: In mentioning the highest status of the people of Paradise and the lowest of them
Chapter Forty-One: On the masterpiece of the people of Paradise when they enter it
Chapter Forty-Six: On the Cultivation of Paradise
Chapter Fifty-Two: In mentioning their servants and servants
Chapter Sixty-Eight: In mentioning the last people to enter Paradise
Chapter Seventy: In His remembrance, who is worthy of this good news and no one else

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