📖 The Book of Pearls 📖

By Abu al-Faraj Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi al-Hasan Ali ibn Muhammad al-Qurashi al-Taymi al-Bakri, better known as Ibn al-Jawzi

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This book is among the finest works of Ibn al-Jawzi in the art of Islamic preaching. Under his leadership, this art became an independent form with distinct features and characteristics in style, expression, formulation, and imagery. If there is a criticism of this book, it is the author's extreme pride in his preaching ability; he takes great pride in it. He was also fiercely critical of certain Islamic sects, such as the Jahmites, the Mushabbihah, the Mufassila, and others. He was extremely enthusiastic about the school of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal and the Sunni school in particular.

While sermon rhyme predominated in the sermons of the book, it was a rhyme appropriate to its time and theme. The important thing is that it was not, in general, artificial rhyme; rather, it stemmed from a unique rhetorical ability.

Author:
Ibn al-Jawzi, Abu al-Faraj Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi al-Hasan Ali ibn Muhammad al-Qurashi al-Taymi al-Bakri, was a Hanbali jurist, hadith scholar, historian, and theologian (510 AH/1116 AD - 12 Ramadan 597 AH). He was born and died in Baghdad. He enjoyed widespread fame and a prominent position in oratory, preaching, and writing, and he also excelled in many sciences and arts. His lineage goes back to Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr al-Siddiq. He was known as Ibn al-Jawzi because of a walnut tree that once grew in his house in the town of Wasit. There was no other walnut tree in the town. It is also said that he was named after "Fardat al-Jawz," the port of the Basra River.

❇️ Some reviews of the book "Pearls" by Ibn al-Jawzi ❇️

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- The sweetness of sequential speech is easy to the heart. The booklet is small, at about 91 pages, and includes an introduction that introduces Ibn al-Jawzi, his works, and what has been said about him on 22 pages. The rest is composed of sermons from Ibn al-Jawzi, arranged from A to Z.
Aseel

- "Praise be to God, who brought forth the seed and nurtured its offspring, and split the kernel to reveal a green stalk, which became a palm tree." Sermons arranged in a unique necklace like pearls.
Afaf Ammar

❇️ Some sermons and sermons from the book "Al-La'ali" by Ibn al-Jawzi ❇️

1- He has singled you out for precedence over the angels and commanded you, and given you the weapon of jihad and established the battlefield. Yet you killed yourself with sins, so who will overtake you? You confronted Him with sins as if He did not see you. You went ahead and opposed Him, but how dare you! You heard the description of His punishment, how patient you are! You were young and obedient, so what changed you?!

2- He created wealth as a means to the beloved things offered, so preserve it. I do not think my advice is hated. How many of His treasonous transactions lend His trust like a mosquito. We have lived until we saw the required trusts rejected!

3. Reflect on your innermost being and ponder the structure of your fingers. It is sufficient to learn lessons from your tongue whenever it twists. When you recognize the blessings and the wear and tear it has brought, and are certain of the benefits and the best, you will say, "Glorify the name of your Lord, the Most High, Who created and proportioned." [Al-A'la: 1-2].

4. Beware of heretics, for the disease of heretics is incurable. The belief of the heretic is like a peg in the sand, and the knot of the Sunni is like a nail in a sand pit. [1] The night of the heretic is without morning, while the faces of the Sunnis are morning. "Like a niche within which is a lamp, the lamp is in glass." [An-Nur: 35].

5. How many children have fathers suffered for, only to be disobedient when they grew up? Disobedience is a major sin.

6. One Sunni is worth a thousand, while a thousand heretics are nothing. The heretic hides his doctrine, while the Sunni is strong-willed. The Sunnis say to the Sunni, "Speak," while the heretic says, "Khamush Bash."[2]

7. Fight the enemies of the Sunnah, the people of misguidance: "And put your trust in the Ever-Living Who does not die." [Al-Furqan: 58]

8- If others conceal their beliefs, we will beat the drums against our beliefs. Those who deny the truth have no understanding, and those who anthropomorphize have no minds. Follow the noble path of the Book and the Sunnah, and you will attain your goal. Do not lead the donkey of denial or the cow of anthropomorphism. “Indeed, it is a cow that is not subservient.” [Al-Baqarah: 71]

9- “That is the enjoyment of worldly life.” [Al-Imran: 14] Is enjoyment anything but a loan that can be borrowed? Have you heard of the faults of this world? Would a buyer buy the wasps of dates?

10- Victory belongs to the monotheists, under the protection of Allah, the Lord of the Sun. How many innovators have stumbled while the Sunnah cries out to them, "Woe to them!" They will appear on the Day of Judgment and see the recompense for their falsehoods and fabrications, once their eyes are clear of sleep: "The Day every soul will find present what it has done of good and what it has done of evil. It will wish that between it and that was a great distance. And Allah warns you of Himself. And Allah is Kind to [His] servants." [Al-Imran: 30]

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