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One Hundred Pieces Of Advice
One Hundred Pieces Of Advice
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78 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2016
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March 26, 2025Ibn Al-Qayyim’s insights on these four categories of people are truly profound. Reflecting on my life journey, I recognize how much I have experienced and encountered each of these categories.
1. **The First Category (Like Food):**
These individuals are genuinely important in our lives — serving as sources of strength, knowledge, and inspiration. This group includes our supportive family, a few loyal friends, and perhaps some mentors. Although they may not always be physically present, they are the ones we turn to for encouragement and support when needed.
2. **The Second Category (Like Medicine):**
This category reminds me of certain professional relationships or acquaintances that I value in specific situations — for example, during my career development, while completing my PhD, or when marketing my books. I rely on these individuals when times get tough, but outside of those situations, I can manage independently.
3. **The Third Category (Like a Disease):**
Many of us have gone through phases where our sincerity and openness attracted individuals who wanted to take without giving back. Such people drain our energy and complicate our journey. They might come in the form of toxic colleagues or individuals who try to control and manipulate us, but ultimately, we realize they no longer deserve a place in our lives.
4. **The Fourth Category (Like Poison):**
This is the most painful category. I remember the betrayal that prompted me to leave social media in the first place. Some people damaged my reputation, brought me down, and made me question my self-worth. These "poisons" almost destroyed me, but somehow, I managed to recover. These bitter experiences have strengthened me and made me brave enough to take risks.
Looking back on my journey, I have learned a lot about who should be in my life. I have also begun to create my little world, focusing on things that bring me meaning and growth. This is a testament to my strength.
I highly recommend this book.
1. **The First Category (Like Food):**
These individuals are genuinely important in our lives — serving as sources of strength, knowledge, and inspiration. This group includes our supportive family, a few loyal friends, and perhaps some mentors. Although they may not always be physically present, they are the ones we turn to for encouragement and support when needed.
2. **The Second Category (Like Medicine):**
This category reminds me of certain professional relationships or acquaintances that I value in specific situations — for example, during my career development, while completing my PhD, or when marketing my books. I rely on these individuals when times get tough, but outside of those situations, I can manage independently.
3. **The Third Category (Like a Disease):**
Many of us have gone through phases where our sincerity and openness attracted individuals who wanted to take without giving back. Such people drain our energy and complicate our journey. They might come in the form of toxic colleagues or individuals who try to control and manipulate us, but ultimately, we realize they no longer deserve a place in our lives.
4. **The Fourth Category (Like Poison):**
This is the most painful category. I remember the betrayal that prompted me to leave social media in the first place. Some people damaged my reputation, brought me down, and made me question my self-worth. These "poisons" almost destroyed me, but somehow, I managed to recover. These bitter experiences have strengthened me and made me brave enough to take risks.
Looking back on my journey, I have learned a lot about who should be in my life. I have also begun to create my little world, focusing on things that bring me meaning and growth. This is a testament to my strength.
I highly recommend this book.
August 27, 2022
Gem of a book!
December 1, 2023
In relation to mixing with the people, you must put them into four categories. If you mix them together and don’t differentiate between them, evil will enter upon you.
*The First Category* : Those whom you mix with like they were nourishment—you can’t do without them, day or night. When you have taken your need from them, you leave them, and when you need them again, you mix with them; this is constant. They are more cherished than red sulfur. They are those who have knowledge of Allah, His commands, the plots of His enemy, and the illnesses of the heart and its medicine. They are those who are sincere to Allah, His Book, His Messenger, and the creation. As for this category of people, mixing with them is always profitable.
*The Second Category* : Those whom you mix with like medicine— you need it when you are sick. So long as you are healthy, you have no need to mix with them. They are those with whom you have to mix for the betterment of sustaining a living and receiving what you need from commerce and transactions, counseling, and medical treatment.
When you have your need, you no longer mix with them.
*The Third Category*: Those with whom mixing is like an illness, and it varies according to the strength or weakness.
Mixing with some of them is like an incurable disease or a chronic illness. These are those who don’t benefit you in the religion or the worldly life; rather, it’s a must that the religion and the worldly life will be destroyed, or at least one of them will be. If mixing with them is forced upon you, it is a deadly sickness.
Mixing with some of them is like a toothache—if you remove the tooth, the pain will go away. And mixing with some of them is like a fever. He is the annoying, abominable person. He doesn’t know how to speak and benefit you, nor does he know how to be silent so you can benefit him. He doesn’t know himself well enough to put himself in his proper place. Each time he speaks, he views himself as fine perfume freshening the gathering.
*The Fourth Category* Whoever mixes with them is completely destroyed. Mixing with them is equivalent to eating poison. This category is extremely prevalent among the people, may Allah not increase their numbers. They are the people of innovation and misguidance, those who block the Sunnah of the Messenger Of Allah. They call to opposing the Sunnah, and they impede and divert people from the path of Allah. They put innovation in the place of Sunnah and Sunnah in the place of innovation, good in the place of evil and evil in the place of good.
If you dispense tawhid among them, they say, “You are diminish ing the status of the righteous men!” If you dispense following the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah among them, they say, “You have wasted the Imams who are to be followed!” If you describe Allah how He describes Himself and how His Messenger describes Him, without exceeding the proper bounds or being negligent, they say, “You resemble Him to the creation!” If you command with what Allah and His Messenger command, and forbid what Allah and His Messenger forbid, they say, “You are a troublemaker!” If you follow the Sunnah and leave what opposes it, they say, “You are from the people of bid'ah and misguidance!”
And if you leave what you are upon and follow their desires, then with Allah you will be from the losers, and according to them you will be a hypocrite! Therefore, be firm in seeking the pleasure of Allah by angering them, and have no concern for their criticism.
~ imam 𝙞𝙗𝙣 𝙖𝙡 𝙦𝙖𝙮𝙮𝙖𝙢
*The First Category* : Those whom you mix with like they were nourishment—you can’t do without them, day or night. When you have taken your need from them, you leave them, and when you need them again, you mix with them; this is constant. They are more cherished than red sulfur. They are those who have knowledge of Allah, His commands, the plots of His enemy, and the illnesses of the heart and its medicine. They are those who are sincere to Allah, His Book, His Messenger, and the creation. As for this category of people, mixing with them is always profitable.
*The Second Category* : Those whom you mix with like medicine— you need it when you are sick. So long as you are healthy, you have no need to mix with them. They are those with whom you have to mix for the betterment of sustaining a living and receiving what you need from commerce and transactions, counseling, and medical treatment.
When you have your need, you no longer mix with them.
*The Third Category*: Those with whom mixing is like an illness, and it varies according to the strength or weakness.
Mixing with some of them is like an incurable disease or a chronic illness. These are those who don’t benefit you in the religion or the worldly life; rather, it’s a must that the religion and the worldly life will be destroyed, or at least one of them will be. If mixing with them is forced upon you, it is a deadly sickness.
Mixing with some of them is like a toothache—if you remove the tooth, the pain will go away. And mixing with some of them is like a fever. He is the annoying, abominable person. He doesn’t know how to speak and benefit you, nor does he know how to be silent so you can benefit him. He doesn’t know himself well enough to put himself in his proper place. Each time he speaks, he views himself as fine perfume freshening the gathering.
*The Fourth Category* Whoever mixes with them is completely destroyed. Mixing with them is equivalent to eating poison. This category is extremely prevalent among the people, may Allah not increase their numbers. They are the people of innovation and misguidance, those who block the Sunnah of the Messenger Of Allah. They call to opposing the Sunnah, and they impede and divert people from the path of Allah. They put innovation in the place of Sunnah and Sunnah in the place of innovation, good in the place of evil and evil in the place of good.
If you dispense tawhid among them, they say, “You are diminish ing the status of the righteous men!” If you dispense following the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah among them, they say, “You have wasted the Imams who are to be followed!” If you describe Allah how He describes Himself and how His Messenger describes Him, without exceeding the proper bounds or being negligent, they say, “You resemble Him to the creation!” If you command with what Allah and His Messenger command, and forbid what Allah and His Messenger forbid, they say, “You are a troublemaker!” If you follow the Sunnah and leave what opposes it, they say, “You are from the people of bid'ah and misguidance!”
And if you leave what you are upon and follow their desires, then with Allah you will be from the losers, and according to them you will be a hypocrite! Therefore, be firm in seeking the pleasure of Allah by angering them, and have no concern for their criticism.
~ imam 𝙞𝙗𝙣 𝙖𝙡 𝙦𝙖𝙮𝙮𝙖𝙢
January 29, 2022
This little book is highly beneficial and should be read as many times as one needs for these pieces of advice to get ingrained in the brain. All the things mentioned in the book one way or other if memorized and practiced will make life easier and more importantly adds something to your overall personality.
May 9, 2023
Eye opening advices from one of the most decorated scholars of Islām, a good read.
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November 2, 2024A great summary for all ages is required in each household and is often reflected and revised.
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