Songs of Presence - Qasidas of the Shadhili Path Hearafter destroy our own inner core

destroy our own inner core while compromising our dignity

Imam al-Ghazali discusses the virtues and categories of the intellect and the prophetic traditions related to it

The book was accepted by scholars of the school to such an extent that some said that whoever has memorized it is fit to be a judge

and to seek reward as a gift from the Divine rather than a wage owed

Each question & answer pair is given first in Arabic

Songs of Presence - Qasidas of the Shadhili Path Hearafter destroy our own inner coreIn Arabic and with explanatory notes in English From the Foreword by Shaykh Nuh Ha Mim Keller: The aim of Qasidas or spiritual odes, of which this manual is a compendium, is to worship Allah, by turning mens hearts to the Divine, who says, And when My servants ask you of Me, truly I am close (Koran 2: 186). The purpose of qasidas in the Sufi path is to convey the experiential gnosis of forebears to subsequent generations, for what comes from the heart