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Hunting of thoughts

صيد الخاطر

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

About this work

صيد الخاطر كتاب قال عنه مؤلفه ابن الجوزي شارحا سبب تأليفه وتنوع مواضيعه لذا فالكتاب يعد من أفضل الكتب التي ألفت في بابه، وإطلالة على بغداد في أواخر العصر العباسي الذي عاينه الكاتب.

Translation

Hunting for Thought is a book that its author, Ibn al-Jawzi, said about, explaining the reason for its writing and the diversity of its topics. Therefore, the book is considered one of the best books written on its subject, and a view of Baghdad in the late Abbasid era, which the writer examined.

Topics covered

introduction
The preacher and the listener
The attractions of printing are many
He who looks at things with the eye of his insight
Thinking about the consequences of this world
The sedition approach
The greatest punishment
The height of determination
God's love for His loved ones preceded it
The wise person gives every moment its due
Whenever you see someone being punished, know that it is for sins
Envy stems from love of the world
Who likes to settle things?
Assignment departments
Do not waste a moment without closeness
Satan's tricks and deception
The fortunes of the virtuous in this world
People's conditions with prohibitions
The scales of justice do not favor
Most of the conditions of Sufism deviate from Sharia law
The matter of the soul and its essence
The task of the body and the task of the mind
Events of this world and events of the afterlife
The soul cannot be patient with confinement
Isolation from evil, not from good

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