The first ten minutes of The Story of Nuh by Imam Ibn Kathīr — opening with the spoken introduction to the Joyful Muslims Translation.

From Ibn Kathir's classic Qisas al-Anbiya — the story of Prophet Nuh as narrated through Quran and authentic traditions.

This preview is taken from The Story of Nuh — the full audiobook, part of Stories of the Prophets in the Joyful Muslims classical Islamic library.

The complete audiobook — with the word-synced Arabic and English Living Manuscript, Study Kit vocabulary and reflections, the whole Qurʾān free, and offline downloads — is available in the Joyful Muslims app.

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The first ten minutes of The Story of Adam by Imam Ibn Kathīr — opening with the spoken introduction to the Joyful Muslims Translation.

From Ibn Kathir's classic Qisas al-Anbiya — the story of Prophet Adam as narrated through Quran and authentic traditions.

This preview is taken from The Story of Adam — the full audiobook, part of Stories of the Prophets in the Joyful Muslims classical Islamic library.

The complete audiobook — with the word-synced Arabic and English Living Manuscript, Study Kit vocabulary and reflections, the whole Qurʾān free, and offline downloads — is available in the Joyful Muslims app.

Audio is the vessel. Preservation is the purpose.

A three-minute sample from al-Fawāʾid — Points of Benefit, Volume One by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya.

Ibn al-Qayyim kept a notebook. Not a treatise built of chapters and arguments, but the benefits he gathered as he read, prayed, and watched his own heart — a paragraph on envy, a page on the excuses the soul makes, a line that stops you where you stand. al-Fawāʾid is that notebook, and Volume One gathers forty-seven of its sittings: each short enough to take in one sitting, each heavy enough to stay with you. Offered in two editions — the English Translation, and the Arabic original woven through with the recitation of Shaykh Maḥmūd Khalīl al-Ḥuṣarī.

This preview is taken from al-Fawāʾid — Points of Benefit, Volume One — the full audiobook, part of Timeless Classics in the Joyful Muslims classical Islamic library.

The complete audiobook — with the word-synced Arabic and English Living Manuscript, Study Kit vocabulary and reflections, the whole Qurʾān free, and offline downloads — is available in the Joyful Muslims app.

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A three-minute sample from al-Akhlāq wa'l-Siyar — Character and Conduct by Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba.

Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba wrote this book as a physician writes of a disease he has survived. Blunt, personal and unsparing, it sets out what he learned about the sicknesses of the soul — envy, vanity, the love of being spoken of — and how a person may be cured of them. He names his own faults, tells you what friendship cost him, and refuses every consolation he does not believe. Eleven centuries later it still reads as though written by someone who knows you.

This preview is taken from al-Akhlāq wa'l-Siyar — Character and Conduct — the full audiobook, part of Timeless Classics in the Joyful Muslims classical Islamic library.

The complete audiobook — with the word-synced Arabic and English Living Manuscript, Study Kit vocabulary and reflections, the whole Qurʾān free, and offline downloads — is available in the Joyful Muslims app.

Audio is the vessel. Preservation is the purpose.

A three-minute sample from Al-ʿAqīda al-Ṭaḥāwiyya by Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭaḥāwī.

The creed of Ahl al-Sunnah as Imam al-Tahawi set it down in tenth-century Egypt — a short, exact statement of what Muslims believe about Allah, His names, His speech, prophethood, destiny and the life to come. Recited in full, with every Qur'anic verse in the voice of Shaykh Mahmoud Khalil al-Husary.

This preview is taken from Al-ʿAqīda al-Ṭaḥāwiyya — the full audiobook, part of Timeless Classics in the Joyful Muslims classical Islamic library.

The complete audiobook — with the word-synced Arabic and English Living Manuscript, Study Kit vocabulary and reflections, the whole Qurʾān free, and offline downloads — is available in the Joyful Muslims app.

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A three-minute sample from Ayyuhā al-Walad — O Beloved Son by Imam al-Ghazali.

Al-Ghazālī's tender letter to a beloved student — a lifetime of wisdom distilled into a few luminous pages on knowledge that transforms the heart, sincere action, and the road to God.

This preview is taken from Ayyuhā al-Walad — O Beloved Son — the full audiobook, part of Timeless Classics in the Joyful Muslims classical Islamic library.

The complete audiobook — with the word-synced Arabic and English Living Manuscript, Study Kit vocabulary and reflections, the whole Qurʾān free, and offline downloads — is available in the Joyful Muslims app.

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A three-minute sample from Futūḥ al-Ghayb — Revelations of the Unseen by Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani.

Futūḥ al-Ghayb — 'Revelations of the Unseen' — gathers the spiritual discourses of Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī, the great saint of Baghdad. Addresses on sincerity, patience, poverty of spirit, trust, and drawing near to God: the etiquette of the path (ādāb al-sulūk) for every seeker. Offered in two editions — the faithful Translation and JoyfulMuslims' easy, flowing Retelling.

This preview is taken from Futūḥ al-Ghayb — Revelations of the Unseen — the full audiobook, part of Timeless Classics in the Joyful Muslims classical Islamic library.

The complete audiobook — with the word-synced Arabic and English Living Manuscript, Study Kit vocabulary and reflections, the whole Qurʾān free, and offline downloads — is available in the Joyful Muslims app.

Audio is the vessel. Preservation is the purpose.

A three-minute sample from Volume Three by Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah.

The third volume of Ibn al-Qayyim's masterwork on the stations of the soul's journey to Allah.

This preview is taken from Volume Three — the full audiobook, part of Madārij al-Sālikīn in the Joyful Muslims classical Islamic library.

The complete audiobook — with the word-synced Arabic and English Living Manuscript, Study Kit vocabulary and reflections, the whole Qurʾān free, and offline downloads — is available in the Joyful Muslims app.

Audio is the vessel. Preservation is the purpose.

A three-minute sample from Volume 3 — The Sīrah: From the First Revelation to Badr by Imam Ibn Kathīr.

Volume Three opens the Sīrah proper: the first revelation in the cave of Ḥirāʾ, the manner of waḥy, the earliest Muslims, the persecution in Mecca, the hijrah to Medina, the establishment of the ummah, and the Battle of Badr in Year 2 — the first open confrontation between the new community and Quraysh, narrated with Ibn Kathīr's characteristic care for the chains.

This preview is taken from Volume 3 — The Sīrah: From the First Revelation to Badr — the full audiobook, part of Al-Bidāya wal-Nihāya in the Joyful Muslims classical Islamic library.

The complete audiobook — with the word-synced Arabic and English Living Manuscript, Study Kit vocabulary and reflections, the whole Qurʾān free, and offline downloads — is available in the Joyful Muslims app.

Audio is the vessel. Preservation is the purpose.

A three-minute sample from Volume Two by Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah.

The second volume of Ibn al-Qayyim's masterwork on the stations of the soul's journey to Allah.

This preview is taken from Volume Two — the full audiobook, part of Madārij al-Sālikīn in the Joyful Muslims classical Islamic library.

The complete audiobook — with the word-synced Arabic and English Living Manuscript, Study Kit vocabulary and reflections, the whole Qurʾān free, and offline downloads — is available in the Joyful Muslims app.

Audio is the vessel. Preservation is the purpose.