Diseases of the heart, by Shaykh Al-Islâm Ibn Taymiyyah

"The living and enlightened heart hears, sees and reasons, thanks to the light it contains, while the dead heart hears nothing and sees nothing. "

"The heart needs to be educated in order to develop and grow, until it reaches maturity and rectifies itself, in the same way that the body needs food that will benefit it. It must =, in addition from this prohibiting him from anything that can harm him, like the body and the plants which only develop if we give them what they need and prohibit what is harmful to them .

Shaykh ul-Islâm ibn Taymiyah gives us here to see the full extent of his knowledge of the human soul. The depth of his style, the analysis he makes of heart disease and the remedies he prescribes will not leave the attentive reader unmoved. Read and ponder...