Author: Hamza Yusuf

Publisher: Dar Al-Taqwa Ltd.

Size/Vol.: A5 (14.8x21 cm - 5.83x8.27 in)

ISBN : 9781929694150

Language : English

-Binding: Paperback

- Pages: 212

- Weight: 376gm

- A Translation and Commentary of Imam al-Mawlud's 'Mathar al-Qulub'

- This exploration of Islamic spirituality delves into the psychological diseases and cures of the heart. Diseases examined include miserliness, envy, hatred, treachery, rancour, malice, ostentation, arrogance, covetousness, lust, and other afflictions that assail people and often control them. The causes and practical cures of these diseases are discussed, offering a penetrating glimpse into how Islam deals with spiritual and psychological problems and demonstrating how all people can benefit from these teachings.

- AUTHOR HAMZA YUSUF

- Shaykh Hamza Yusuf was born in Washington State and raised in Northern California. In 1977, he became Muslim and subsequently traveled to the Muslim world and studied for ten years in the U. A. E., Saudi Arabia, as well as North and West Africa. He received teaching licenses in various Islamic subjects from several well-known scholars in various countries.

- After a ten years of studies abroad, he returned to the USA and took degrees in Religious Studies and Health Care. He has traveled all over the world giving talks on Islam. He also founded Zaytuna Institute which has established an international reputation for presenting a classical picture of Islam in the West and which is dedicated to the revival of traditional study methods and the sciences of Islam. Shaykh Hamza is the first American lecturer to teach in Morocco's prestigious and oldest University, the Kairoiuin in Fez.

- In addition, he has translated into modern English several classical Arabic traditional texts and poems.