As Ibn al-Qayyim himself wrote in the book’s opening: “Knowledge of the soul and its journey is not mere curiosity; it is the compass that directs our actions in this life toward the eternal home.”
In the bustling, knowledge-rich city of Damascus in the 14th century (8th century Hijri), a scholar named Shams ad-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, better known as Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, sat in the shadow of the Umayyad Mosque. A student of the great Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn al-Qayyim was a prolific writer, a jurist, and a spiritual seeker. Kitab Ar-ruh English Pdf
Kitab Ar-Ruh (The Book of the Soul) by the 14th-century scholar Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyya As Ibn al-Qayyim himself wrote in the book’s
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