Al-Fawa'id (The Benefits)

About this book

Have you ever felt a bright idea flash in your mind like a shooting star, then fade before you could grasp its edge? Or a sermon shaking your being in a moment of clarity, dissolving the moment you return to life's noise? Here, in these pages, "the physician of hearts" decided to record those straying thoughts before they flee, and catch the musings that visit the mind only for counted seconds. This book is no dry religious or preaching text, but "the diaries of a soul" fighting its daily battles between the ambition of heaven and the gravity of earth. The author slips into the backrooms of the human psyche, uncovering the hidden hypocrisy behind the robes of ascetics, and analyzing with stunning wit how "disposition" steals man's resolve. As you turn the pages you realize you are not alone in your wandering; man is man in every age, fighting the hope of survival and fearing the sudden departure. Between this work's covers you will find a wondrous blend of deep existential philosophy and strict psychological education, cast in a style combining the scholar's majesty and the lover's tenderness. It is an open invitation to watch "the flaws of the self" and the whispers of the soul, and to store the light of remembrances for the dark nights.