Three Treatises : Mutual Reminding, Good Manners & The Aphorisms

This small volume brings together three concise treatises of Imam Abd Allah ibn Alawi al-Haddad, translated by Dr. Mostafa al-Badawi. Each work is short by design, meant to be read and returned to rather than read once and shelved.

The first, Mutual Reminding, takes up the ethic of offering good counsel to one another, the quiet obligation believers owe each other in speech and intention. Good Manners turns to the shape of a righteous character in daily life. The Aphorisms closes the volume as a tract of beneficial wisdom, distilled sayings meant to sharpen reflection rather than argument. In this edition, The Aphorisms carries the added commentary of Shaykh Muhammad Hayat al-Sindi, which opens up Imam al-Haddad's condensed phrasing for readers working through it slowly.

This printing gathers what had circulated as two earlier translated works and adds, for the first time, the third treatise alongside them, so the reader has all three in one place. At 162 pages, it is not a lengthy commitment, but the kind of book suited to being kept near at hand, opened often, and read a few pages at a sitting for the counsel it offers rather than raced through.