Mukhtasar Minhaj Al Qasidin - Paperback

by Ibn Qudama Al Maqdisi (Author), Wa'il A. Shihab (Translator)

This volume is an authoritative abridgment of Ibn al-Jawzī's Minhāj al-Qāṣidīn, itself a refined recension of Imām al-Ghazālī's Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn. The work distills the juristic, ethical, and spiritual architecture of early Sunnī scholarship into a structured four-part framework grounded in Qur'ān, Sunnah, and the inherited method of uṣūl al-fiqh. The manuscript opens with acts of worship-knowledge, purification, ṣalāh, zakāh, ṣawm, ḥajj, Qur'ān, and dhikr-presented through their legal foundations and devotional rationale.

The second chapter treats customs and social dealings: hospitality, marriage, livelihood, lawful and unlawful earning, brotherhood, travel ethics, and al-amr bi'l-maʿrūf. The third section examines destructive flaws of the soul-anger, appetite, pride, ostentation, envy, and the diseases of the heart-offering a disciplined analysis of their causes and prescribed remedies. The final chapter outlines the means of salvation: repentance, patience, gratitude, fear, hope, zuhd, tawḥīd, trust, sincerity, intention, self-scrutiny, contemplation, and remembrance of death.

Drawing exclusively upon the manuscript, this edition maintains juristic sobriety and textual restraint, providing scholars, students, and libraries with a reliable doorway into classical Islamic legal-ethical literature.

Gist of Subjects Covered in the Book

• • Foundations of Worship and Faith
  • Acts of devotion including prayer, charity, fasting, pilgrimage, Qur'an, remembrance of Allah, and supplication.
  • Social Customs and Everyday Conduct
  • Islamic guidelines on food, marriage, earning a livelihood, social interactions, enjoining good, and prophetic manners.
  • Inner Corruption and Its Remedies
  • Analysis of spiritual diseases such as pride, anger, envy, ostentation, and their treatment through self-discipline and ethical reform.
  • Path to Salvation and Spiritual Growth
  • Virtues like repentance, patience, sincerity, love for Allah, and remembrance of death-central tools for personal transformation and nearness to God.