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📖 The Book of Manners (Al-Adab Al-Saghir) and the Book of Manners (Al-Adab Al-Kabir) by Ibn al-Muqaffa' 📖

By Abu Muhammad Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa'

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📖 The Book of Manners (Al-Adab Al-Saghir) and the Book of Manners (Al-Adab Al-Kabir) by Ibn al-Muqaffa' 📖

By Abu Muhammad Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa'

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This book is of immense value and great benefit. In it, Ibn al-Muqaffa' offers insightful and profound observations on the entirety of human life, including interactions, morals, manners, livelihood, and thoughts. He further promotes virtue and good character, strengthens the ambitions of those with lofty aspirations, and encourages integrity, piety, and forbearance in every endeavor and every word spoken. He elevates the status of reason and wisdom, and protects even the most ambitious dreams from excess and falling into the trap of recklessness, folly, and caprice. He addresses the mind with his sublime ideas just as he addresses the heart with his refined, eloquent, and gentle language. A flowing, serene style, like a gentle sea breeze, devoid of affectation or embellishment. It doesn't burden you with a difficult journey to reach your goal, but rather presents its meanings with a clear and accessible structure. Therefore, the book is of immense value, especially considering that it sheds considerable light on the literature of an important period in Arabic prose and epistolary writing, encompassing a wide range of topics from courtly interactions with kings and governors to the simplest aspects of daily life.

Author: Abu Muhammad Abdullah ibn al-Muqaffa' (106-142 AH) (724-759 CE) was a Persian thinker born into Zoroastrianism who later converted to Islam. He lived during both the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates. He studied Persian and learned Arabic from the works of literary figures, and he frequented the Mirbad market. He translated Kalila wa Dimna from Pahlavi into Arabic. Among his transmitted works are *Al-Adab al-Saghir* (The Minor Book of Manners) and *Al-Adab al-Kabir* (The Major Book of Manners), which discuss the ruler and his relationship with his subjects, and vice versa. *Al-Adab al-Saghir* also deals with self-discipline and training oneself to perform virtuous deeds. He also wrote the introduction to *Kalila wa Dimna*.


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❇️ Some Reviews of Ibn al-Muqaffa's "Al-Adab al-Saghir wa al-Kabir" ❇️

▪️Source of reviews: www.goodreads.com/book/show/4723930▪️

The book is incredibly beautiful and powerful, both in its language and style. The profound wisdom is evident in every line. Though small in size, it is a giant in its literary merit, style, advice, and guidance. In a beautiful and dignified manner, Ibn al-Muqaffa' bestows upon us his wisdom and lifelong experience, depositing them between the covers of this book.
- Muhammed Hebala

A few pages containing a wealth of wisdom... Ibn al-Muqaffa' masterfully applied the saying "Eloquence lies in brevity." The author compiled some of the wisdom and admonitions of those who came before him and reformulated them in his own words. A delightful book that leaves a positive impression.
- Taghreed Jamal el deen

A valuable book, rich with wisdom. One of the most wonderful books I have ever read; and perhaps, as a reaction, I will begin reading Kalila wa Dimna after this book, for this is the kind of richness I find most pleasing, and it is for such things that one should read, for such things that literature was created!

- Banan

What can I say about Abdullah ibn al-Muqaffa'? What more can you expect from a man who practices and embodies the noble ideals and virtues he preaches?

This book delves into the merits of reason, friendship, and the etiquette of rulers. We must not forget that Ibn al-Muqaffa' was a great intellectual who gathered the knowledge and wisdom of the ancients from India, Persia, Greece, Syria, and the Sabaeans, weaving them into a necklace of jewels with a thoughtful mind. His upbringing was rooted in the Quran and Islam, resulting in a collection of wise sayings, concise yet profound, encompassing all aspects of life. This is Ibn al-Muqaffa', who was killed for his adherence to his word and his principles. - Abu Rakan

A lovely book full of wisdom and very straightforward, easy-to-understand advice... It's like self-help in itself. I don't know why they didn't teach us texts from it in high school instead of the story of "The Days" and the nonsense they drowned us in.
- Shaza

❇️ Some quotes from Ibn al-Muqaffa's "The Small Book of Manners" and "The Great Book of Manners" ❇️

"The fairest way to conduct oneself is to judge others by one's own standards, so do not do to them anything you would not want done to you." - Al-Muqaffa

"Success and diligence are a pair. Diligence is the cause of success, and with success, diligence succeeds."

"The world is a cycle of fortune. What is meant for you will come to you despite your weakness, and what is not meant for you, you cannot repel with your strength."

"Desire is the bane of chastity, negligence is the bane of religion, and unbridled desire is the bane of reason."

“Among the things that help alleviate worries and calm the soul is the meeting of brothers, and each confiding in the other. If a friend is separated from his friend, he is robbed of his peace and deprived of his joy.”

“A person’s faith never remains in one state; it is always either increasing or decreasing.”

“The most beneficial wisdom is to make the most of the good you have been given and not to worry about the evil that has not befallen you.”

“Attend to the most important matter: It used to be said, ‘If matters overwhelm you, attend to the most dangerous one. If you cannot discern it, then attend to the one with the best chance of success. If that is unclear, then attend to the one most likely to be resolved, until its opportunity has passed.’”

— Abdullah ibn al-Muqaffa, Al-Adab al-Saghir wa al-Adab al-Kabir (The Minor and Major Books of Etiquette)

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