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What is al-Fawāʾid, Volume Two?
al-Fawāʾid, Points of Benefit, is the notebook of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, the 14th-century scholar known for Madārij al-Sālikīn and a vast body of work on the soul, love, the traps of the ego, and the nature of the heart. It is not a single argument but a series of sittings, each a self-contained benefit, short enough to take in one and heavy enough to stay. Volume Two continues where Volume One ended. The question every page answers is the same: what does a person overlook about his own soul, and what would change if he saw it clearly?
Volume Two opens on the page Ibn al-Qayyim is most quoted for: ten things a person wastes and never counts — knowledge not acted on, a deed with no sincerity in it, wealth neither enjoyed nor sent ahead, a heart empty of love, an hour that made up nothing. From there the seventy-six sittings move through the soul's whole terrain. Among them: the two pillars of religion, remembrance and gratitude; the four pillars of unbelief; how character has a limit, beyond which is transgression and short of which is deficiency; and why lying corrupts the liar's own perception of things before it reaches anyone else.
The sittings ask the reader to test himself. One warns of those who know the path of evil and innovation in detail but the path of the believers merely in outline; God loves that you know the path of His enemies so that you may shun it, just as you must know the path of the believers. Another says God tests His servant with appetites, either as a veil that shuts him out or as a barrier he passes through to God's nearness. On Joyful Muslims the volume is also available in the Arabic original, and in Indonesian, Turkish, and Urdu.
Is there an English audiobook of al-Fawāʾid II?
Yes. Joyful Muslims publishes the complete al-Fawāʾid — Points of Benefit, Volume Two as an English audiobook (about 6 hours), translated from the Arabic, with a word-synced bilingual transcript. It is the second volume of Ibn al-Qayyim's notebook, seventy-six short sittings that begin with the ten wasted things and move through the soul's whole terrain.
Is it free to listen?
The whole library is open to everyone. Every member gets five hours of listening free each month; Joyful+ removes the time limit.
What does it cover?
Seventy-six short sittings, beginning with the ten wasted things, then the pillars of remembrance and gratitude, the four pillars of unbelief, the limits of character, lying and perception, renunciation, aspiration, and the rights of God in affliction and ease.
Last updated 2026-09-11
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