🤲Spiritual Refinement, Manners & Remembrance

Excursion councils and the selection of precious things

نزهة المجالس ومنتخب النفائس

Author: عبد الرحمن بن عبد السلام الصفوري (المتوفى: 894هـ) (d. 894)

About this work

نزهة المجالس ومنتخب النفائس للصفوري هو مؤلف يندرج تحت تصنيف الرقاق والآداب والأذكار، يجمع فيه مجموعة واسعة من الفصول التي تتناول الإخلاص والذكر وفضائل البسملة، إضافة إلى مواضيع الصبر والرضا والأدب. كما يشتمل على أبواب تتحدث عن فضل الدعاء، التقوى، الصلوات، الصوم، الزكاة، والفضائل المرتبطة بالمناسبات الدينية مثل رمضان وعرفة وعيد الفطر. يهدف الكتاب إلى إرشاد القارئ إلى سلوكيات إيمانية وأخلاقية من خلال ما يقدمه من نصوص ومواعظ مستندة إلى التراث الإسلامي.

Translation

Nuzhat al-Majlis and Muntakhab al-Nafais by al-Saffuri is a book that falls under the classification of Al-Raqqaq, Adab, and Remembrance, in which it brings together a wide range of chapters that deal with sincerity, remembrance, and the virtues of the basmalah, in addition to the topics of patience, contentment, and etiquette. It also includes sections that talk about the virtue of supplication, piety, prayers, fasting, zakat, and the virtues associated with religious occasions such as Ramadan, Arafat, and Eid al-Fitr. The book aims to guide the reader to faith and moral behavior through the texts and sermons it presents based on the Islamic heritage.

Topics covered

This is a list of the chapters, books, and chapters it contains
Chapter on sincerity
The book of beliefs, the virtue of remembrance, the Qur’an, verses from it, and surahs
Chapter on dhikr
A chapter on the virtue of Basmala
A chapter on remembrances other than the Qur’an
The door of love
A chapter on mentioning death, hope, and the virtue of patience, contentment, and good manners
Chapter on hope
Chapter on patience
Chapter on contentment
Chapter in literature
Chapter on the virtue of supplication
Chapter on piety, doing good deeds, and abstaining from evil
Chapter on the virtue of prayers day and night and related matters
A chapter on the virtues, days, and nights of Friday and its generosity
Chapter on the virtue of zakat
A chapter on zakat on organs, which is abstaining from forbidden things
Chapter on censuring arrogance
A chapter on condemning backbiting and gossiping
Chapter on doing good to the orphan
Chapter on the virtue of Rajab and its fasting
Chapter on the virtues of Sha`ban and the virtues of praying praises
Virtues of Laylat al-Qadr and an explanation of its virtues
Chapter on the virtue of Arafat, the two Eids, the takbeer, and the sacrifice

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