The Book of Wisdoms: Kitab Al-Hikam (Shaykh Ibn 'Ataillah al-Iskandari)
Description
ISBN: 9781933764054
Author: Shaykh Ibn 'Ataillah al-Iskandari
Publisher: White Thread Press (May 2014)
Pages: 374 Binding: Hardcover 6.25 x 9.25 x 1.25"
Description from the publisher:
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 Qur’an 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.