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The Secrets Of Asceticism by Imam Al Qurtubi English Translation Of The 3rd Part Of Qam Al Hirsi Bi Al Zuhdi Wa Al Qanaah

THE SECRETS OF ASCETICISM

Book Contents

• Zubd and Its Explanation  
• Sovereignty Over This World  
• The Virtue of Zuhd and Its Fruit   
• States of Those who Practised Zubd in this Word  
• The Prophet’s Zubd  
• The Zuhd of the Companions  
• Virtues of Earning and Spending Wealth Properly ,
• The Prophet’s Statement on His Nation’s Test  
• The Lowliness of This World  
• Explanation of This World and Its Metaphors  
• The World as a Prison for the Believer  
• Desiring the Other World  
• The Prophet’s Js Statement: “Whoever Loathes My Sunna”

One of the great benefits of many a classical text is the format used by those penning their kind.

This format, pellucidly reflected in this work is the pearlescent construction of the book through a variety of quotations from the Quran, hadith literature, sayings of the great sages, anecdotes and stories conceptual analyses embodied in concrete shapes, and the like thereof.

Thus the reader is never overcome by ennui and he sees strewn before him an uninterrupted string of gems of guidance, from the divine to the human via the prophetic, across a river of multifarious generations.

In the ultimate analysis, in works such as this, the theme dealt with by the author is less important than what his dealing with it encompasses, or we could say, the pedagogical method of handling it.

One could have exchanged or the subject of zuhd one of many other topics shedding light on the straight path, without having detracted from either the usefulness or the enjoyable nature of what is read.

 A thematic cornerstone of the dm, such as zuhd, is like a s ip sailing through the ocean of transformative Islamic knowledge.

The voyaging through it, and the quality of the captain-scribe (al-Qurtubl in our case), are more central tools than the conveyance instrument utilized.