Al-Da' wal-Dawa | Diseases of the Hearts and Their Cures
A landmark work of Islamic spiritual medicine, in which Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya answers a question that touches every believer: if the Quran is a complete cure, why do so many people still feel sickness in their hearts? That single question opens into one of the richest, most practical books ever written on dua, repentance, and the cure for sin.
What's Inside:
- The power of dua as the believer's true weapon, and what blocks a prayer from being answered.
- The best times and causes for an answered dua.
- Hope (rajaa) in Allah's mercy, and the difference between genuine hope and self-deceiving complacency.
- A deep, practical look at how sins damage the heart, weaken faith, and open the door to further sin.
- The nature of shirk in its many forms in worship, in speech, and in intention.
- Major sins examined in detail: injustice, oppression, murder, and zina.
- A unique, well-known section on love (mahabbah) and infatuation (`ishq): their causes, their cure, and the line between lawful and unlawful love.
- A closing discussion of the hadith "Whoever loves and stays chaste..." and what it really means.
Why to Read This Book:
Few books combine deep scholarship with such practical, usable guidance. Ibn Qayyim writes with clarity and compassion, diagnosing the heart's ailments the way a skilled physician would, then prescribing the cure straight from the Quran and Sunnah. It's a book scholars return to again and again, and one any sincere reader can pick up to better understand, and heal, their own heart.
Author: Imam Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya (d. 751 AH).
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