Explanation of the Concise Advices of Shaykh-ul-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah

Abul-Qāsim as-Sabtī—the scholar and world explorer—regarded a then 36-year-old Ibn Taymiyyah to be the most knowledgeable person he had encountered in the East and the West. Thus, he wrote to him requesting advice concerning four matters:

• Advice that would benefit him in his religion and his worldly life
• A comprehensive book that would suffice him in the field of knowledge
• The best supererogatory acts of worship
• The most profitable earnings