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🤲Spiritual Refinement, Manners & Remembrance

The garden of preachers and the garden of listeners

بستان الواعظين ورياض السامعين

Author: جمال الدين أبو الفرج عبد الرحمن بن علي بن محمد الجوزي (المتوفى: 597هـ) (d. 597)

About this work

بستان الواعظين ورياض السامعين هو كتاب في الوعظ، ألفه الحافظ ابن الجوزي (508 هـ - 597 هـ)، الكتاب عبارة عن مجالس كان يعقدها المؤلف للتذكير والوعظ بالله تعالى، وهي عبارة عن ثمانية عشر مجلسا ومنها: مجلس في الاستعاذة، ومجلس في ذكر يوم القيامة وأهوالها، ومجلس في ذكر الجنة وأوصافها، ومجلس في فضل الصيام ، وقد دعم ابن الجوزي كتابه بآيات القرآن الكريم والأحاديث النبوية والكثير من الآثار.

Translation

The Garden of Preachers and the Garden of the Listeners is a book on preaching, written by Al-Hafiz Ibn al-Jawzi (508 AH - 597 AH). The book consists of gatherings that the author held to remind and preach of God Almighty. It consists of eighteen sessions, including: a session on seeking refuge, a session on mentioning the Day of Resurrection and its horrors, a session on mentioning Paradise and its descriptions, and a session on the virtue of fasting. Ibn al-Jawzi supported his book with verses. The Holy Qur’an, the hadiths of the Prophet, and many effects.

Topics covered

  • A council in seeking refuge
  • Interpretation of seeking refuge
  • advice
  • How to seek refuge
  • Seeking refuge is an act of worship
  • The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, seek refuge
  • Hadiths about the torment of the grave
  • Causes of the torment in the grave
  • The Qur’an commands seeking refuge
  • Everyone has the devil
  • Satan is happy with the sinful, ignorant person
  • Satan's soldiers
  • Satan's conversation with Moses
  • The origin of miserliness and generosity
  • The seeker is saved from torment
  • Good qualities of Imam Ali
  • Whoever saw Satan among the righteous and righteous companions
  • God's protection from Satan
  • Weakness of man and Satan
  • A supplication that protects us from Satan
  • Why did God block Satan?
  • Heaven's decorations
  • The purity of the sinner and the impurity of sin
  • Adhering to the Sunnah and not violating it
  • How did the Prophet destroy Ifrit?

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