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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious experience > Mysticism
Winner of the 2021 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and
International Understanding (category: translation from Arabic into
English) This is an unabridged, annotated, translation of the great
Damascene savant and saint Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's (d. 751/1350)
Madarij al-Salikin. Conceived as a critical commentary on an
earlier Sufi classic by the great Hanbalite scholar Abu Isma'il of
Herat, Madarij aims to rejuvenate Sufism's Qur'anic foundations.
The original work was a key text for the Sufi initiates, composed
in terse, rhyming prose as a master's instruction to the aspiring
seeker on the path to God, in a journey of a hundred stations whose
ultimate purpose was to be lost to one's self (fana') and subsist
(baqa') in God. The translator, Ovamir ('Uwaymir) Anjum, provides
an extensive introduction and annotation to this English-Arabic
face-to-face presentation of this masterpiece of Islamic
psychology.
Winner of the 2021 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and
International Understanding (category: translation from Arabic into
English) This is an unabridged, annotated, translation of the great
Damascene savant and saint Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's (d. 751/1350)
Madarij al-Salikin. Conceived as a critical commentary on an
earlier Sufi classic by the great Hanbalite scholar Abu Isma'il of
Herat, Madarij aims to rejuvenate Sufism's Qur'anic foundations.
The original work was a key text for the Sufi initiates, composed
in terse, rhyming prose as a master's instruction to the aspiring
seeker on the path to God, in a journey of a hundred stations whose
ultimate purpose was to be lost to one's self (fana') and subsist
(baqa') in God. The translator, Ovamir ('Uwaymir) Anjum, provides
an extensive introduction and annotation to this English-Arabic
face-to-face presentation of this masterpiece of Islamic
psychology.
The Holy Quran presents an irrefutable basis and belief system for
the establishment of a stable and harmonious life in this world,
and a triumphant return to Paradise in the Next. There are
misunderstandings about the very source-springs of human well-being
the belief in the spiritual realities of existence, the infinite
love for the Holy Messenger, and the unity regarding the
implementation of the divinely revealed programme for human
society.Young people all over the world, Muslim as well as
non-Muslim, are brought up and educated in an environment permeated
by scientific materialism. It is modern learning which programmes
their minds and causes them to reject anything they find
incompatible with what they have been taught about man and life on
the earth. This book will clarify the misunderstandings and
confusions about Islamic spirituality on scientific
grounds.Scientific orthodoxy refers to magnetic sensitivity in
human beings, electromagnetic energies that permeate our
atmosphere, the flow of positive and negative ions in the
atmosphere affecting human brain activity, the function of the
pineal gland and many other empirical sources of transcendent
experience that are yet to be investigated. This magnetic energy
basis of spiritual experience, which the scientific camp has been
forced into revealing, has proved to be a welcome development of
modern science from the point of view of Islamic spirituality.The
younger generation of modern times will have their belief
reconfirmed by the study of the scientific facts cited in this
book. The scientific reality of Islamic spirituality is
demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt.
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