Flee to Allah

Flee to Allah is a devotional and instructive Islamic work devoted to the believer's return to Allah through repentance, remembrance, prayer, supplication, and moral self-examination.

Written in a style shaped by the language of early Muslim scholarship, the book brings together Qurʾānic verses, Prophetic traditions, tafsīr, and counsel from major scholars such as Ibn Kathīr, Ibn al-Qayyim, al-Nawawī, and Ibn Qudāmah. Its focus is not merely theoretical reflection, but disciplined spiritual reform: turning away from sin, recognizing the fleeting nature of worldly life, preparing for death, establishing prayer, and strengthening one's dependence upon Allah.

The work opens with the Qurʾānic command: "So flee to Allah," presenting this flight as a return to tawḥīd, repentance, and reliance upon the Creator. From there, the chapters examine the prerequisites and signs of repentance, the harms of sin, the deception of worldly attachment, the remembrance of death, the inner meaning of prayer, the etiquette and merits of duʿāʾ, the remembrance of Allah, and sincere advice for the Muslim heart.

The book also includes practical religious guidance on matters connected to prayer, purification, supplication, spiritual protection, and the treatment of afflictions such as sorcery and related harms, framed within devotional obedience and lawful Islamic practice.

This volume is suitable for students of Islamic spirituality, readers of classical Muslim admonition literature, mosque libraries, Islamic study circles, and general readers seeking a text rooted in Qurʾān, Sunnah, repentance, and the purification of the soul.

Flee to Allah presents Islamic spiritual counsel in a structured and textually grounded form, preserving the ethical seriousness, devotional urgency, and scholarly tone of classical Muslim guidance.

Table of Content

Contents

Introduction

Chapter One: Repentance

Chapter Two: This-Worldly Life

Chapter Three: Death

Chapter Four: Prayer

Chapter Five: Duʿāʾ (Supplication)

Chapter Six: The Remembrance of Allah (Dhikr)

Chapter Seven: Excessive Love

Chapter Eight: The Treatment of Epilepsy, Sorcery, and Impotence Caused by Sorcery

Chapter Nine: Sincere Advice