After the recent events this week and the passing of our brother Marcellus (Khalifa) Williams—may Allah have mercy upon him—I thought it might be beneficial to share this book. Perhaps you know someone who would benefit from it, In’shaa’Allah. This book is for those in prison and guides them on how to live their daily life inside.
In this unique work, the incarcerated Muslim comes face to face with the everyday lives of the pious predecessors and those great scholars who trod their path and succeeded them in goodness up to this era. This book is much more than just a compilation of rulings and verdicts, instead, it is a special treatise that enlightens the incarcerated Muslim on how to go about his daily life whilst in prison, instructs him how to mend his past, steers in the direction of a positive future and a better tomorrow.
The adornment of the book is its unique and unprecedented style which allows the reader to lift the curtain and look into the lives of the Salaf and see how they lived on a day-to-day basis, along with enabling the reader to rest in the pleasant shade of their wise statements and golden pieces of advice in some of the most important spheres of life and worship of Allah, the Sublime and Exalted. Accented by the intriguing tales of the trials and tribulations of Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, then the soothing morals and benefits taken from the story of Ibn Taymiyyah’s imprisonment, followed thereafter by the closest example to our time; the brief but beneficial story of imprisonment of Imam Al-Albani (may Allah have mercy upon them all).