Muslim Saints and Mystics – Tadhkirat al Awliya
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Author: Farid ud Din ‘Attar
Translated by: A. J. Arberry
Publisher: Muslim Media
Pages: 356
Printed: India
Binding: Soft Cover
Book Condition: New
Weight: 523gr.
Description: The ascetic outlook and practice characterised the life not only of the Holy Prophet Muhammad himself but many of his earliest followers. Even at the height of the spread of Islam and its astonishing military conquests, many leading men withstood all temptation to abandon the austere life of the desert and their example was admired and emulated by multitudes of humbler rank. This book, abridged from the famous volume by Farid al Din ‘Attar devotes a short chapter to the lives of 38 of the early Sufis.
The Tadhkirat al-Auliya captures the life accounts of ninety-six Sufi Masters, of the highest order who taught the sublimest way to God- Realisation. The beauty of the work lies in the fact that it brings out the obstacles that often surmount mystics when they tread the path, and details how these Sufi Masters, overcame these difficulties:’
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