Join us for an author evening with Andrew Booso, to discuss the book, The Book Of Wisdoms [Kitab al-Hikam with Ikmal al-Shiyam] – A Collection of Sufi Aphorisms with a Commentary by Shaykh Ibn Ata’illah al-Iskandari & Shaykh ‘Abdullah Gangohi (translation of the Hikam by Victor Danner, commentary edited by Andrew Booso and Abdur-Rahman ibn Yusuf).
This book will be available to purchase from the IHRC Bookshop.
WHEN: Friday, 3 February, 2023, 6.30pm (GMT)
WHERE: IHRC Bookshop (202 Preston Road, Wembley, HA9 8PA)Â or watch live on www.ihrc.tv, Facebook or YouTube
Prayer and wudu facilities available
Refreshments provided
For any enquiries, please email events@ihrc.org
About the book:
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.
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