The Book of Small Literature and the Great Literature of Ibn al-Muqaffa’

For Abu Muhammad Abdullah bin Muqaffa

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It is a book of great value and great benefit, in which Ibn al-Muqaffa shoots a right arrow and a piercing view of the entirety of human life, in his dealings, morals, literature, livelihood, and thoughts. After that, he dedicates favor and good manners, enhances the ambition of the aspiring people of long-term ambition, and incites righteousness, piety and dreaminess in every novelty that a person walks in, and in every word he utters. It exalts reason and wisdom, and protects the first dreams from excess and falling into the entrance of frivolity, recklessness and whims. It addresses the mind with its sublime thoughts, just as it addresses the heart with its sublime, eloquent, and gentle language. A flowing, calm style, like the sea breeze, with no pretension or decoration, and the rugged boat does not tempt you to reach your goal, but rather drives its meanings near its buildings. Therefore, the book was great in its value, especially if we add that it sheds a lot of light on the literature of an important stage of our Arabic literature within the framework of prose and transmission, on many etiquettes that begin with entering on kings and rulers and end with the simplest affairs of life.

Author:
He is a Persian thinker who was born as a Magian, but he converted to Islam, and lived through both the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates.. He studied Persian and learned Arabic in the books of writers and participated in the Marbad market. Transfer from Pahlavi to Arabic Kalila and Dimna. He has in the transmitted books small literature and great literature in which there is talk about the Sultan and his relationship with the subjects and the relationship of the subjects with him, and small literature about cultivating the soul and taming it with good deeds.

❇️ Some reviews of Ibn al-Muqaffa’s Book of Small and Great Literature ❇️

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The book is extremely beautiful, powerful and beautiful in terms of language, style, and very, very deep wisdom. In every line of the book, the small and giant book is literature, style, advice and guidance in a very beautiful and very sober style. Ibn al-Muqaffa gives us his wisdom and the experience of his life And he deposits it between the covers of this book
- Muhammed Hebala

A few pages contained a lot of wisdom.. Ibn al-Muqaffa excelled in applying the saying “rhetoric in brief”
The writer collected some of the wisdom and sermons of the past, and rephrased them with his letters.. a nice book that leaves a good impression on the soul
- Taghreed Jamal el deen

A valuable book, abundant in wisdom. One of the most amazing things I've ever read! Perhaps, as a reaction, I will start with a night and a dimna after this book, as this is what pleases me of richness, and for such a person is read, for such literature is made!
- Banan

What do I say about Abdullah bin Al Muqaffa .. What do you want from a man who does and is represented by what he says of high ideals and morals?
A book that touched on the merits of the mind, friends, and the etiquette of the sultan. And we should not forget that Ibn al-Muqaffa was a great intellectual, as he collected the sciences and rulings of the ancients from India, Persians, Greece, Syriac and Sabeans and cast them into a decade of jewels with a contemplative mind. life . That is Ibn al-Muqaffa' who was killed because of his commitment to his covenant and his word.
- Abu Rakan

A nice book that is very direct and smooth judgment and advice... This is a need for human development in itself.. I don't know why we didn't study texts from it in secondary school instead of the story of the days and nonsense they drowned us in
- Shaza

❇️ Some quotes from Ibn al-Muqaffa’s book al-Adab al-Saghir wa al-Adab al-Kabeer ❇️

“The most just way is that you measure people by yourself, so do not come to them except as you would be pleased to be brought to you. The canopy.”

Success and diligence are a husband. Ijtihad is the cause of success, and with success, ijtihad will succeed.”

“The world is a country. Whatever you had from it, it came to you on your weakness, and whatever was against you, you did not repay it with your strength.”

Passion is the scourge of chastity, complacency is the scourge of religion, and insolence is the scourge of the mind.

“Among the aid in relieving worries and calming the soul is meeting the brother with his brother, and each one of them is open to his companion. And if he differentiates between the pet and his pet, he has robbed his decision and deprived his pleasure.”

“A man's religion is never fixed in one state, but it is still either plus or minus.”

“The most useful intellect is to make a good life with the good that you have been given, and not to be concerned about evil with what has not befallen you.”

“Be busy with the greatest: and it was said: If you get involved in matters, then work on the most dangerous of them, and if you do not resolve that, then leave it in the dark, and if it is doubtful, then it is better for him not to have a return, until you take his chance.”

― Abdullah ibn al-Muqaffa’, Small Literature and Great Literature



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