Reynold A. Nicholson
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Sayyed Ali Bin Usman Al Hujwiri popularly known as Data Gunj Bakhsh is a much revered Sufi of great repute. He contributed a lot to spread the true message of Islam to the masses of the Punjab through his larger than life character. Besides preaching he also wrote some books on different disciplines of Islam of which is his famous treatise named Kashf Al Mahjub.
Since his work on Sufism presented in this book is of encyclopedic nature and a simple but ...
Mysticism is such a vital element in Islam that without some understanding of its ideas and of the forms which they assume one should seek in vain to penetrate below the surface of Mohammedan religious life. The forms may be fantastic and the ideas difficult to grasp; nevertheless one should do well to follow them, for in their company east and west often meet and feel themselves akin. This book attempts at making the reader acquainted with this fantastic aspect ...
I hear nothing in my ear, But your voice. Heart has plundered mind, Of its eloquence, Love writes a transparent, Calligraphy, so on, The empty page my soul, Can read and recollect. The Sufi mystic and poet Jalaliddin Rumi is most beloved for his writings which represent the ecstasies and mysteries of life in all its forms—erotic, platonic, divine – which are fresh and intense today as when they first written by this medieval, Persian-born (present-day ...