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A Stratagem to Banish Sorrow's Gloom: Penned by the Sage who made the desert bloom
Paperback
PhilosophyMedieval & Renaissance HistoryMental Health
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 17 2026
Pages: 52
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.14 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Timeless Stratagem to Banish Sorrow's Gloom
Do the burdens of the shifting world upon your shoulders weigh? Do the fleeting joys of mortal life turn rapidly to gray? When the tides of fortune ebb and leave you stranded on the shore, Does your spirit seek a quietude it cannot find anymore?
Behold a beacon from the past, a bright and guiding light, Penned by the greatest Arab sage to conquer sorrow's night. Yaqub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi, master of the mind, Left this philosophic remedy for all of humankind. Written in the Golden Age, yet breathing pure and new, This masterpiece of inner peace is rendered here for you.
Presented with a scholar's care by Karim ETTAHRI, To set the modern reader's mind from heavy sorrows free. This volume is no dusty scroll, but a newly structured whole, With a Critical Discourse designed to elevate the soul. It holds a Comprehensive Guide and lessons deeply cast, Bridging the modern aching heart with wisdom of the past. It shines a light upon the grief that tears our lives apart, And offers cognitive relief to heal the broken heart.
Within this wondrous treasury, the reader shall attain:
The Source and Cure of Human Grief: And how to break its chain.
The Allegory of the Ship: A tale to cure the blind, Revealing how material lust destroys the peaceful mind.
The Truth of Our Mortality: To ease the anxious breath, And prove that life's completion is the grand design of death.
The Art of Noble Letting Go: To leave the dark behind, And build an everlasting fort within the soaring mind.
Learn why the tears we shed for gold are shed in blinding vain, And how the fortress of the Intellect defeats the pain. For everything beneath the stars is but a borrowed loan, And true tranquility is found within the soul alone.
Scroll up and claim this ancient cure, let all your anguish cease, And journey with the Arab Sage to everlasting peace.
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