Publication
Imprint: London, UK : White Thread Press, [2014]. Edition: First edition May 2014, reprint October 2016. Language: Some passages in Arabic with English translation, commentary in English. Responsibility: Shaykh Ibn 'Ata'illah al-Iskandari, translated by Victor Danner, with Ikmal al-Shiyam by Shaykh 'Abdullah Gangohi, introduction by Shaykh Zakariyya Kandhlawi, edited by Andrew Booso, Abdur-Rahman Ibn Yusuf Mangera. OCLC Number: 858914413. Physical: Text : 1 volume : 374 pages ; 24 cm. Features: Includes index.
Call number
GT-I-S / ata'Al
ISBN
9781933764054
Collections
CSS Library Notes
Description: Muslim religious life not only consists of belief in orthodox tenets of faith and a determined effort to follow the Sacred Law, it also requires one to scale the heights of the spiritual path. The Kitab al-Hikam of Shaykh Ibn Ata illah al-Iskandari is the inspiring explanation of the soul s journey through this life, as determined through the Quran and Sunna. Along with his treatises and intimate discourses (munajat), the substantive feature of the work is the author s 264 spiritual aphorisms (hikam) concise, comprehensive and sublime sayings on self purification (tazkiya), and guidelines to help strengthen the relationship between humans and their Lord. These aphorisms, which have never failed to inspire, are presented in this edition according to the systematic arrangement of the great Indian scholar Shaykh Ali Muttaqi (d. 975/1567), together with the indispensable commentary of the twentieth-century sage Shaykh Abdullah Gangohi.
Table of Contents: On knowledge --
On repentance --
On sincerity --
On the ritual prayer --
On solitude & detachment --
On time and its importance --
On invocation --
On meditation --
On abstinence --
On poverty --
On disciplining the ego --
On moderation in fear and hope --
On the etiquette of supplication --
On accepting the divine decree and abandoning choice --
On patience through adversity --
On the beneficence of Allah upon his servants --
On companionship --
On ambitious desire --
On humility --
On gradual delusion --
On litany and inspiration --
On the states of the path --
On contraction and expansion --
On spiritual lights and their categories --
On the servant's proximity to allah and natural disposition --
On the divine's proximity to creation and his manifestation of things by direction and guidance --
On the special traits of the gnostics --
On intuitive knowledge and reasoning --
On exhortation and its effect on the heart --
On thankfulness --
The treatises --
The first treatise --
The second treatise --
The stages of thankfulness --
The third treatise --
The fourth treatise --
The intimate discourses.
FY2017 /
Table of Contents: On knowledge --
On repentance --
On sincerity --
On the ritual prayer --
On solitude & detachment --
On time and its importance --
On invocation --
On meditation --
On abstinence --
On poverty --
On disciplining the ego --
On moderation in fear and hope --
On the etiquette of supplication --
On accepting the divine decree and abandoning choice --
On patience through adversity --
On the beneficence of Allah upon his servants --
On companionship --
On ambitious desire --
On humility --
On gradual delusion --
On litany and inspiration --
On the states of the path --
On contraction and expansion --
On spiritual lights and their categories --
On the servant's proximity to allah and natural disposition --
On the divine's proximity to creation and his manifestation of things by direction and guidance --
On the special traits of the gnostics --
On intuitive knowledge and reasoning --
On exhortation and its effect on the heart --
On thankfulness --
The treatises --
The first treatise --
The second treatise --
The stages of thankfulness --
The third treatise --
The fourth treatise --
The intimate discourses.
FY2017 /
Physical description
374 p.; 24 cm
Original language
Arabic