The disease and the cure

It is a book authored by Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya that discusses in its chapters the topic of reforming and correcting the soul, and refining it according to the Islamic perspective. The reader moves through its chapters passing through advice and rebuke. The book addresses the vices of the commanding soul (nafs al-ammarah), revealing its flaws and slips, and demonstrating the authority of desires over it. It warns against the tricks and schemes of Satan in causing the soul to fall into sins and disobedience, and to succumb to the worldly life and its adornments.