Beneficial Counsels (Wasaya) poetry leading to a happy and

leading to a happy and purposeful life and the Pleasure of our Lord Allah

- SHAYKH ʿABDULLAH B

Pages: 588

This spiritual guide to the self is a handbook of tazkiyah or ‘self-purification’

and the relation between personal faith and religious pluralism

Beneficial Counsels (Wasaya) poetry leading to a happy andImam al Haddads Beneficial Counsels is a collection of nine sets of counsels in the form of letters which the Imam sent to some of his close students. Each set of counsels contains provision for the wayfarer on his or her journey to Allah. The Imam deals with topics such as taqwa, the etiquettes of prayer and performing hajj, whose company one should keep and how to illuminate ones heart. In addition to the counsels, this book contains a small