THE CURE
الداء والدواء
Ad-Dāʾ wa-d-Dawāʾ · The Disease and The Cure
Ibn al-Qayyim wrote this book in answer to one question: a man afflicted with something he feared would ruin his life and his hereafter asked for the way out (the question, Arabic ed. p. 3). The Cure helps you find what the book says about what you are facing — and takes you straight to the source.
What are you seeking?
Topics
The ailments, sins and remedies the book discusses — each built only from passages found in the text.
In your wordsSearch
Ask in plain English or Arabic. Results are passages, chapters and references — never an invented answer.
In the book’s orderThe book
Read the Arabic text in its own order, following the edition’s contents, page by page.
The book’s main themes
All topics →What The Cure is — and is not
The Cure is a way into one classical book. Every topic, passage and reference here was extracted from the Arabic critical edition of Ad-Dāʾ wa-d-Dawāʾ and can be traced to its page. The English translation is used as a reference and quoted only briefly.
It is not a therapist, a mufti or a summary of Islamic spirituality. It does not diagnose you, add modern advice, or put words in Ibn al-Qayyim’s mouth. Where the text is uncertain — a scan that is hard to read, a reference that could not be confirmed — it says so.