The Garden of the Lovers and the Promenade of the Yearning

Rawdat al-Muhibbin wa Nuzhat al-Mushtaqin by Imam Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah is a significant work on love, its various forms, causes, and effects on the heart and soul. Ibn al-Qayyim discusses the love for Allah and His Messenger ﷺ as well as various forms of human love and their influence on the human being.

The work combines profound explanations with Quranic verses, hadiths, statements of the Salaf, and valuable advice for the purification and cultivation of the heart. This high-quality Saudi edition is based on a scholarly revision that was also used for the Athar series of Ibn al-Qayyim. The text has been checked and verified against six manuscripts. The annotations also include source references for the arguments and quotations that Ibn al-Qayyim uses in his work.