In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

[With His help we seek assistance, and upon Him we rely] (1)

The shaykh [the erudite imam and eminent scholar Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, widely known as Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah] (2) – may Allah have mercy upon him and be pleased with him – wrote in the treatise he dispatched from Tabūk (3) on the 8th of Muḥarram, 733 AH, after sending the poem whose opening line is (4):

Whenever the sun of the day rises, then it