[Success in this World the Next ] Success in this World the Next Shaykh Hamza Yusuf "My advice to you, O Possessor of virtue and courtesy: if you desire to reside in an exalted place amongst the ranks of people, a place where you are high and exalted of virtue and courtesy is..." Thus opens the poem of the great scholar, Ibn al Haddad as translated and commented upon by Hamza Yusuf. Though short, this poem of council contains an immense amount of wisdom and is similar to the study of the Purification of the Heart.