Songs of Presence - Qasidas of the Shadhili Path Hearafter in this volume

in this volume

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

a scholarly and thoroughly researched Arabic work of Shaykh Abul-Hasan Ali Nadwi (May Allahs Mercy be upon him)

These are two of the five books that deal with the inner dimensions of Islamic worship

the Q&A format is a time-honored teaching technique

Songs of Presence - Qasidas of the Shadhili Path Hearafter in this volumeIn 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