🤲Spiritual Refinement, Manners & Remembrance

Benefits, asceticism, chips and elegies

الفوائد والزهد والرقائق والمراثي

Author: أبو محمد جعفر بن محمد بن نصير بن قاسم البغدادي المعروف بـ الخلدي (المتوفى: 348هـ) (d. 348)

About this work

كتاب الفوائد والزهد والرقائق والمراثي لجعفر الخلدي هو مجموعة من المقالات القصيرة التي تجمع بين الفوائد الدينية والآداب الإسلامية والذكر، وتتناول مواضيع متعددة مثل القضاء والقدر، والعافية، وحب علي بن أبي طالب، والفقه، وصوم المقربين، وفضائل الشهادتين، والملائكة، والزوهد، والضيافة، والرثاء. يندرج الكتاب ضمن تصنيف الرقاق والآداب والأذكار، ويستهدف القارئ الباحث عن توجيهات أخلاقية وروحية مستندة إلى النصوص النبوية والآثار.

Translation

The Book of Benefits, Asceticism, Softenings, and Elegies by Jaafar Al-Khalidi is a collection of short articles that combine religious benefits, Islamic etiquette, and dhikr, and deals with multiple topics such as predestination, well-being, love for Ali bin Abi Talib, jurisprudence, fasting of close ones, the virtues of the Shahada, angels, asceticism, hospitality, and lamentation. The book falls within the classification of rituals, etiquette, and remembrances, and targets the reader seeking moral and spiritual guidance based on prophetic texts and monuments.

Topics covered

Destiny and destiny in the life of a Muslim
Wellness is the best thing a person asks of his Lord
Love for Ali, may God be pleased with him, is faith and hatred for him is hypocrisy
Do you know who Zazan is?
The best worship is jurisprudence in religion
Fasting of close ones
One of the commandments of Abu Hurairah, may God be pleased with him
Men's balance
Meeting scientists
One of the virtues of the two testimonies
Angels in Wasel's house
From the dreams of the righteous
Ibn Al-Mubarak's description of the servants
Al-Hasan Al-Basri’s words about asceticism
Abraham's meeting with the Angel of Death
The love of the righteous for their Lord and how it is
One of the meanings of trusting in God
Missing out on good deeds is more severe for the righteous
Of sermons and lessons
From the kindergarten of the ascetics
Beware of miserliness and its people
Generosity is one of the virtues of the Prophet, may God bless him and his family and grant them peace
Of guest etiquette and hospitality
From the conditions of the righteous and their news
Lamentations

الفواكه الشهية في الخطب المنبرية والخطب