{"product_id":"the-sound-heart-sayyid-amjad-hussain-9798187293278","title":"The Sound Heart: A Muslim's Guide to Silencing the Internal Storm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe classical Muslim science of the heart, recovered for the life you are actually living.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou pray. You fast. You give. And yet the anxiety does not lift, the anger keeps escaping at the wrong people, the phone keeps eating the evening, and something underneath it all is quietly not working.\u003cbr\u003eYou have probably been told the reason. Your faith is weak. Pray more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThat answer has cost people their marriages, their health, and in some cases, their lives. And it is not what Islam actually teaches.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur tradition possesses one of the most sophisticated bodies of work on the inner life ever produced. Al-Ghazali mapped the diseases of the heart. Abu Zayd al-Balkhi wrote on anxiety and obsessive thought a thousand years before modern psychology existed. Ibn al-Qayyim understood how a man deceives himself while believing he is sincere. Muslim hospitals had wards for the mentally ill, with light and running water and music, at a time when much of the world was chaining such people up.\u003cbr\u003eMost of us have never been given any of it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sound Heart\u003c\/i\u003e is a complete, practical guide to that inheritance, written in plain English for the ordinary Muslim, and built on the Qur'anic promise that on the Day when nothing else avails, one thing will: \u003cb\u003ea sound heart.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside, you will find: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe diseases\u003c\/b\u003e - greed, envy, anger, pride, showing off, people-pleasing, and the tongue that ruins a man in four seconds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe struggling mind\u003c\/b\u003e - intrusive thoughts and waswas, rumination, procrastination, anxiety, grief, depression, and a full chapter on seeking clinical help without guilt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe stations of the heart\u003c\/b\u003e - making peace with what was decreed, repentance, patience, and the practice of gratitude that genuinely rewires how you see your life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe daily architecture\u003c\/b\u003e - your sleep, your first hour, your phone, your body, your table, your friendships, your marriage, your money, your work\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe purpose\u003c\/b\u003e - sincerity, the love of Allah and His Messenger ﷺ, living between fear and hope, and what it means to travel home\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery verse is referenced. Every hadith is attributed to its narrator and collection. Where the book makes claims about medicine or history, they have been checked against current sources rather than repeated from what circulates among us. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is not a book of accusations.\u003c\/b\u003e There is a way of reading a work like this that leaves a person more religious and less kind, better equipped to hate themselves, and no closer to Allah. That is not what this is for.\u003cbr\u003eEvery diagnosis in these pages exists for the sake of a cure. The cure is real, it is available tonight, and the One who prescribed it loved you first. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRead it in order, or open it at the chapter that describes your week.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sayyid Amjad Hussain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798187293278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/22\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.84d","brand":"Sayyid Amjad Hussain","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665919152383,"sku":"9798187293278","price":22.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_15c4ae96-e4fc-4753-9e0a-57fdde196670.jpg?v=1792014598","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-sound-heart-sayyid-amjad-hussain-9798187293278","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}