Softening The Heart – Abdullah ibn Mubarak

• Publisher: Turath Publishing
• Translator: Aisha Bewley
• ISBN: 9789069499833
• Pages: 485
• Binding: Paperback

ʿAbdullah ibn al-Mubarak’s Kitab az-Zuhd wa’r-Raqaʾiq, the earliest extant book on self-discipline in Islam, is a collection of Qur’ānic exegesis, prophetic traditions and anecdotes from the early generations that encourages rejection of this temporal world in favour of the eternal life of the Next World.