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Sea Without Shore: A Manual of the Sufi Path
"The Summons of the Divine Presence extends across time and place through all heaven-sent revelations. At the core of every heart it reaches it creates a desire to lift the veil between the human and the Divine, not merely to believe and worship and practice, but to see, know, and be with the One who is greater than all. Sufism is a way of worship of the Divine through such direct knowledge, in the Prophetic phrase, “as though you see Him.”
Sea Without Shore describes five remarkable men the author met and knew in his own Sufi path, and what he heard and learned from them first hand while living in the Near East over several decades. It is a Sufi manual taken from hearts, because God looks at them first, and they matter to the work of the Sufis more than books or literature. It offers a window upon a living tradition of experiential knowledge of the highest Reality. It is a handbook as valuable for its inside view of a centuries-old Islamic mystical order, as for its solution to the greatest mysteries at the heart of human existence: you, God, and your fate beyond the grave."
-Nuh Ha Mim Keller
Sea Without Shore is a practical manual for those travelling the path of Sufism or Islamic mysticism, which strives, in Junayd's words, "to separate the Beginninglessly Eternal from that which originates in time," in a word, to be with the Divine without any relation.
The Book opens with narratives of Sufis met by the author in Syria, Jordan, and Turkey whose lives exemplified the knowledge and practice of the Sufi path.
The second part is a complete handbook of the method and rule of the Shadhili order of Susifm, transmitted to the author by his spiritual mentor, Sheikh 'Abd al-Rahman al-Shaghouri - from devotions, dhikr or 'invocation,' and metaphysical doctrine, to how a Sufi lives, marries, and earns a living in the modern world.
A third part treats wider theological questions such as other faiths and mysticisms, universalism and the finality of Islam, the promise of God to Jews and Christians, evolution and religion, and divine Wisdom and Justice in the face of human suffering.
The book provides an indelible portrait of a vibrant mystical tradition spanning seven and a half centuries of endeavor to know the Divine without any other.
Sea Without Shore describes five remarkable men the author met and knew in his own Sufi path, and what he heard and learned from them first hand while living in the Near East over several decades. It is a Sufi manual taken from hearts, because God looks at them first, and they matter to the work of the Sufis more than books or literature. It offers a window upon a living tradition of experiential knowledge of the highest Reality. It is a handbook as valuable for its inside view of a centuries-old Islamic mystical order, as for its solution to the greatest mysteries at the heart of human existence: you, God, and your fate beyond the grave."
-Nuh Ha Mim Keller
Sea Without Shore is a practical manual for those travelling the path of Sufism or Islamic mysticism, which strives, in Junayd's words, "to separate the Beginninglessly Eternal from that which originates in time," in a word, to be with the Divine without any relation.
The Book opens with narratives of Sufis met by the author in Syria, Jordan, and Turkey whose lives exemplified the knowledge and practice of the Sufi path.
The second part is a complete handbook of the method and rule of the Shadhili order of Susifm, transmitted to the author by his spiritual mentor, Sheikh 'Abd al-Rahman al-Shaghouri - from devotions, dhikr or 'invocation,' and metaphysical doctrine, to how a Sufi lives, marries, and earns a living in the modern world.
A third part treats wider theological questions such as other faiths and mysticisms, universalism and the finality of Islam, the promise of God to Jews and Christians, evolution and religion, and divine Wisdom and Justice in the face of human suffering.
The book provides an indelible portrait of a vibrant mystical tradition spanning seven and a half centuries of endeavor to know the Divine without any other.
453 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2011
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About the author
Nuh Ha Mim Keller
18 books91 followersNuh Ha Mim Keller (born 1954) is an American Muslim translator of Islamic books and a specialist in Islamic law, as well as being authorised by Abd al-Rahman al-Shaghouri as a sheikh in sufism in the Shadhili Order. He is one of the foremost Muslim theologians and experts on Sufism in the West. Keller was born in 1954 in the Northwestern United States. He studied philosophy and Arabic at the University of Chicago, located in Chicago, Illinois, and the University of California, Los Angeles, located in Los Angeles, California. Keller converted to Islam from Christianity in 1977.
His English translation of Umdat al-Salik (Reliance of the Traveller) was the first Islamic legal work in a European language to receive the certification of Al-Azhar University. This translation has led to this work becoming influential among Western Muslims. In addition to his authorization to be a spiritual guide, Nuh Ha Mim Keller possesses ijazas, or "certificates of authorisation", in Islamic jurisprudence from scholars in Syria and Jordan.
His English translation of Umdat al-Salik (Reliance of the Traveller) was the first Islamic legal work in a European language to receive the certification of Al-Azhar University. This translation has led to this work becoming influential among Western Muslims. In addition to his authorization to be a spiritual guide, Nuh Ha Mim Keller possesses ijazas, or "certificates of authorisation", in Islamic jurisprudence from scholars in Syria and Jordan.
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September 8, 2011
DISCLAIMER: Because of my own personal affinity to the author and what this book means to me practically, I was hesitant to write anything at all. What follows, therefore, is more of a devotional summary than a literary review.
Shaykh Nuh said this book is part of his legacy and that is indeed what it is. It is composed of three parts, which he titles: Men of the Path, The Way and Bearings.
"Men of the Path" is composed of five original biographies of five Sufis that the author personally met and spent much time in the company of. The first is of his own mentor, Shaykh Abd al-Rahman al-Shaghouri. He then gives the biographies of three other Shadhilis connected to Shaykh al-Hashimi (Shaykh Abd al-Wakil Durubi, Shaykh Yunus and Shaykh Adel) and concludes with a biography of his wife's shaykh, Hajji Baba, a traditional old school Turkish Naqshbandi whom he affectionately refers to as "The Last Ottoman". Far from being a simple biography, it contains personal insights and reflections that reveal a level of humanity of the author that is quite refreshing and unusual, though just as instructive.
"The Way" is a re-write of Tariqa Notes and serves a general manual of the Sufi life that the author teaches and lives himself. In addition to the previous material, the author included chapters on family life, past times (i.e. internet usage, restaurants, music, etc.) and friends, each giving injunctions relating directly to one's suluk (spiritual progress). That being said, perhaps the most brilliant aspect of the book is a chapter called "The Shadhili Rule" which is an original point-by-point summary of the path along the lines of Sidi Ahmad Zarruq's Usul al-Tariqa and rivals anything like it that has been written. It is in brief, a code of ethics, simplified and refined, summarizing the entire spiritual travel of the author that is able to be penned. As to the importance and practicality of this section, the author states:
Lasty, "Bearings" is a collection of articles that answer what are perhaps the most important (and perhaps most controversial) contemporary theological questions relating to the spiritual life. Of this section perhaps the most profound is a 30-page answer to the issue of theodicy (the problem of evil) from a practical perspective.
In summary, anyone who is interested in what Orthodox Sufism looks like in the 20th century, one could do a lot worse. As for those already connected to the author, it is a manual for what we should be doing and a model of what we should eventually become.
Shaykh Nuh said this book is part of his legacy and that is indeed what it is. It is composed of three parts, which he titles: Men of the Path, The Way and Bearings.
"Men of the Path" is composed of five original biographies of five Sufis that the author personally met and spent much time in the company of. The first is of his own mentor, Shaykh Abd al-Rahman al-Shaghouri. He then gives the biographies of three other Shadhilis connected to Shaykh al-Hashimi (Shaykh Abd al-Wakil Durubi, Shaykh Yunus and Shaykh Adel) and concludes with a biography of his wife's shaykh, Hajji Baba, a traditional old school Turkish Naqshbandi whom he affectionately refers to as "The Last Ottoman". Far from being a simple biography, it contains personal insights and reflections that reveal a level of humanity of the author that is quite refreshing and unusual, though just as instructive.
"The Way" is a re-write of Tariqa Notes and serves a general manual of the Sufi life that the author teaches and lives himself. In addition to the previous material, the author included chapters on family life, past times (i.e. internet usage, restaurants, music, etc.) and friends, each giving injunctions relating directly to one's suluk (spiritual progress). That being said, perhaps the most brilliant aspect of the book is a chapter called "The Shadhili Rule" which is an original point-by-point summary of the path along the lines of Sidi Ahmad Zarruq's Usul al-Tariqa and rivals anything like it that has been written. It is in brief, a code of ethics, simplified and refined, summarizing the entire spiritual travel of the author that is able to be penned. As to the importance and practicality of this section, the author states:
These usul are the basis of tawfiq in this path, and whoever exalts them will find they exalt him. Simply put, the tariqa is a means to raise the veil between the slave and Allah. Its condition is the above rule, which comprises the validity of one's Islamic faith and practice; the traditional Sufi method of knowledge ('ilm), practice ('amal), and resultant spiritual state (hal); and the three great aims of suluk: repentance (tawba), nonattachment to other than Allah (zuhd), and tahqiq al-'ubudiyya or realizing one's slavehood. Allah has created the path, the sheikh and the salik to allow this to happen.This entire section for aspirants delineates the expectations and goals one should have and for those unfamiliar with the Hashimi Order, lays out what exactly this tariqa thing is all about from an insiders perspective.
Lasty, "Bearings" is a collection of articles that answer what are perhaps the most important (and perhaps most controversial) contemporary theological questions relating to the spiritual life. Of this section perhaps the most profound is a 30-page answer to the issue of theodicy (the problem of evil) from a practical perspective.
In summary, anyone who is interested in what Orthodox Sufism looks like in the 20th century, one could do a lot worse. As for those already connected to the author, it is a manual for what we should be doing and a model of what we should eventually become.
April 3, 2013
"A great part of every man's توفيق is wisdom...The scholars of Islam explain it as "putting a thing where it should be....Wisdom means accepting God as God and man as man."
"Were any of you to behold the unseen, you would not choose anything but what actually is."
-From the final chapter.
This is the real deal, not popcorn-sufi fluff stuff. This is shariah, haqqiqah, tarbiyah, muraqabah tasawwuf. This is the straight-up old-time religion: gimme summa that. This is why we came to Jordan and who we hope to be.
"Were any of you to behold the unseen, you would not choose anything but what actually is."
-From the final chapter.
This is the real deal, not popcorn-sufi fluff stuff. This is shariah, haqqiqah, tarbiyah, muraqabah tasawwuf. This is the straight-up old-time religion: gimme summa that. This is why we came to Jordan and who we hope to be.
May 12, 2014
When I first approached this book, I was unprepared and foolish. The initial reading after Sheikh Nuh's initiation on the spiritual path, suddenly became labourious. Part of the problem was that I read the book with an quizzing mind, often trying to reconcile salafist queries with the Sufi traditions. I found it hard to read at times. When I removed my waswasa, ceasing my cross-referencing and prejudices, the book becomes monumental, lucid and reflective. Sea with Shore is not only an indispensable manual but a clarion call for those who seek God and the path of spiritual ascension.
March 14, 2017
Dr Shadee Elmasry said that if you want to disappear in a book, read Sea Without Shore. He couldn't be more right. If I had to recommend one book of sufism, off the top of my head I would choose this, provided you already got your fard 'ain right and have read some basic works of sufism.
April 4, 2013
I love this book, I love my sheikh, I am biased to this book because I love my sheikh.
September 27, 2011
A friend told me most people bought this because of the biographies. It is really a great book. The biographies are genuinely awesome and nuanced and where you really get a glimpse at sh. Nuh's personality. Mashallah, he is a smart man, who is well-read (in his talks he warns against philosophy, yet he references it in the book, which confused me) but he also has an astute eye for double meaning or hidden meaning, or reading in between the lines. That struck me. I wish he wrote more about biographies, since as Imam Junayd said, the stories of the pious are soldiers from the armies of Allah.
I didn't really touch the tariqa notes since I'm not a Shadhili but I might go back to it. The last section of essays are helpful but sometimes what he is trying to say is a little vague and could use more elaboration...much like al-Maqasid where its one sentence on a fiqh issue that could mean 2 or 3 things. But maybe I just need to re-read.
Crux: Shaykh Nuh needs to write more.
I didn't really touch the tariqa notes since I'm not a Shadhili but I might go back to it. The last section of essays are helpful but sometimes what he is trying to say is a little vague and could use more elaboration...much like al-Maqasid where its one sentence on a fiqh issue that could mean 2 or 3 things. But maybe I just need to re-read.
Crux: Shaykh Nuh needs to write more.
May 25, 2020
كتاب عظيم جدا، ولكن للأسف اللغة عالية جدا فصعب.
التلت الأول فيه حكاية مواقف من الرجال المتحققين بالطريق وده جميل جدا عشان بيوريك نماذج معاصرة لناس وصلوا لمرحلة عالية جدا، مفيد جدا في رفع الهمة، وعند ذكر الصالحين تتنزل الرحمة، دول أول 100 صفحة.
تاني تلت وده أكبر واحد، حوالي 180 صفحة في شرح أصول الطريق الشاذلي عموما وطريق الشيخ نوح خصوصا، وده المقصود بالذات من الكتاب، وده لازم يترجم.
وتالت تلت عن مناقشة بعض القضايا المهمة زي التعددية الدينية وعالمية الإسلام ونظرية التطور، والشيخ ناقشها لانتشارها في المسلمين الغربيين، والشيخ ما شاء الله متمكن جدا من الفلسفة والكلام وفند تلك الشبهات بنفس عقلي صوفي في آن واحد بشكل عظيم جدا.
رضي الله عن سيدي الشيخ نوح ونفعنا به في الدارين.
التلت الأول فيه حكاية مواقف من الرجال المتحققين بالطريق وده جميل جدا عشان بيوريك نماذج معاصرة لناس وصلوا لمرحلة عالية جدا، مفيد جدا في رفع الهمة، وعند ذكر الصالحين تتنزل الرحمة، دول أول 100 صفحة.
تاني تلت وده أكبر واحد، حوالي 180 صفحة في شرح أصول الطريق الشاذلي عموما وطريق الشيخ نوح خصوصا، وده المقصود بالذات من الكتاب، وده لازم يترجم.
وتالت تلت عن مناقشة بعض القضايا المهمة زي التعددية الدينية وعالمية الإسلام ونظرية التطور، والشيخ ناقشها لانتشارها في المسلمين الغربيين، والشيخ ما شاء الله متمكن جدا من الفلسفة والكلام وفند تلك الشبهات بنفس عقلي صوفي في آن واحد بشكل عظيم جدا.
رضي الله عن سيدي الشيخ نوح ونفعنا به في الدارين.
October 2, 2018
Born into this modernity it might not be so easy for the hearts to notice subtlety.
i don't really know how, but this book really helped me to "see" in a more nuanced way, and every time I return to it I understand something new.
I would recommend this book for anyone intersted in Islam, and I suggest it be read putting aside preconceptions.
i don't really know how, but this book really helped me to "see" in a more nuanced way, and every time I return to it I understand something new.
I would recommend this book for anyone intersted in Islam, and I suggest it be read putting aside preconceptions.
November 21, 2025
As someone who isn’t massively pro or anti Sufism, I really wanted to give this book a chance. I have a few books by Sheikh Nuh Ha Mim Keller and I’m a big fan so I decided I’d love to see how and what he writes about Sufism, like him Im a western convert so we are approaching it from originally being on the outside as opposed to being raised within it.
It’s a big read, coming in at almost 400 pages but it is very readable, moreish one might say. There’s dozens of personal anecdotes that paint amazing pictures and the book does a great job at speaking to your soul, at motivating and guiding each and every Muslim.
The Sufi Order the Sheikh belongs to doesn’t seem to be one that is prone to practicing all of these strange rituals that make one uneasy (and give Sufism its bad reputation) but rather there is an intense urging about following the Quran and Sunnah as much as one can do, enough to impress even the staunchest of Salafis.
At times I was moved due to this book and I feel like at the end of it, I have genuinely been affected and taken steps to becoming a better Muslim. Due to this, I really wanted to give this book a 5⭐️ but it didn’t quite make it. There is just a tad too much fanaticism about the Sufi way in the book for me, and yes one might point out that the title would suggest this, but it really is quite heavy in the 3rd quarter and put a bit of a dampener on it for me.
Having said that, I would certainly recommend and implore each and every muslim, irrespective of your personal affinity to a “type” of Sunni Islam, to read and benefit from this book. It really is up there in motivation as one of the best Islamic books I know.
It’s a big read, coming in at almost 400 pages but it is very readable, moreish one might say. There’s dozens of personal anecdotes that paint amazing pictures and the book does a great job at speaking to your soul, at motivating and guiding each and every Muslim.
The Sufi Order the Sheikh belongs to doesn’t seem to be one that is prone to practicing all of these strange rituals that make one uneasy (and give Sufism its bad reputation) but rather there is an intense urging about following the Quran and Sunnah as much as one can do, enough to impress even the staunchest of Salafis.
At times I was moved due to this book and I feel like at the end of it, I have genuinely been affected and taken steps to becoming a better Muslim. Due to this, I really wanted to give this book a 5⭐️ but it didn’t quite make it. There is just a tad too much fanaticism about the Sufi way in the book for me, and yes one might point out that the title would suggest this, but it really is quite heavy in the 3rd quarter and put a bit of a dampener on it for me.
Having said that, I would certainly recommend and implore each and every muslim, irrespective of your personal affinity to a “type” of Sunni Islam, to read and benefit from this book. It really is up there in motivation as one of the best Islamic books I know.
July 23, 2019
A good book for those looking to gain an insight on the Sufi path.
Speaks about the journey of the writer and the relationship between him and his teacher and how it affected and shaped his life.
Speaks about the journey of the writer and the relationship between him and his teacher and how it affected and shaped his life.
September 13, 2018
Good read. Lives of the awliya, the path of the sufi, contemporary philosophy. Some very interesting (alebit still in line with traditional) views. Would recommend
April 6, 2013
Everything I return to this text I come away with countless new benefits. Perhaps one of the greatest benefit is the recognition that wilaya (Friendship with God) is not a thing confined to the past, it is a alive and well today.
August 3, 2011
An amazing spiritual book full of deep spiritual reflections. But I want to state that I am biased as this book is one for my own personal spiritual path and the author is my own spiritual guide.
August 20, 2015
A book which makes you learn to welcome both pleasure and pain with the same gratefulness. I plan to read this book over and over again.
March 5, 2023
This is an incredibly beautiful book by Sheikh Nuh Ha Mim Keller, containing anecdotes of his experiences with different pious people (accounts I have taken interest in after reading books like Meetings with Mountains and stories by Michael Sugich), an entire manual of the Shadhili Tariqa which has been condensed for the laymen, anyone who is interested in taking this path, or anyone who wants to grasp a better understanding of Sufism rather than the stereotypes which are attached to it, and some questions answered discussing controversial issues such as the concept of God and Human Suffering, Evolution and Perrenialism.
All controversy aside, I think Sheikh Nuh Ha Mim Keller is a brilliant writer and just someone who is an amazing storyteller, particularly when he brings in these different experiences from his youth right after his conversion to Islam, as well as someone who is incredibly well versed into the Sufi Path and just an amazing scholar in general, although, there are certain aspects I don't necessarily agree with, such as harsh rulings to do with photography and relating it to image making.
In the end, I truly enjoyed this book, and have gained a better insight into the Sufi teaching, and I have gained a lot more respect for Sheikh Nuh Ha Mim Keller as a writer and a scholar, as well as someone who is incredibly knowledgable in the fine path of Tasawwuf.
All controversy aside, I think Sheikh Nuh Ha Mim Keller is a brilliant writer and just someone who is an amazing storyteller, particularly when he brings in these different experiences from his youth right after his conversion to Islam, as well as someone who is incredibly well versed into the Sufi Path and just an amazing scholar in general, although, there are certain aspects I don't necessarily agree with, such as harsh rulings to do with photography and relating it to image making.
In the end, I truly enjoyed this book, and have gained a better insight into the Sufi teaching, and I have gained a lot more respect for Sheikh Nuh Ha Mim Keller as a writer and a scholar, as well as someone who is incredibly knowledgable in the fine path of Tasawwuf.
June 7, 2022
A fantastic and timeless sufi classic that is written in words that are easy to digest and understand - I would strongly recommend it for anyone who is spiritually inclined.
June 19, 2025
Fantastically written. A true gem in English Islamic literary tradition. Very comprehensive and a joy to read.
April 5, 2025
“He had never seen the need to mention it. Nor for matter can I remember either of us ever asking the other it family or kin.”
“be with Allah without any creation, and be with creatures without any ego,"
When we ail, we treat ourselves With Your Remembrance.
And we leave the Remembrance sometimes,
And we lessen.”
“Sufism could be summarized in a single word: invoke."
Dhikt is sufficient, provided it is accompanied by abandoning disobedience."
His manners towards Allah had been extremely refined by the dhikr. He was a master of guarding his tongue from anything unbecoming or unpleasant. Over the years, I became aware of his remarkable repertoire of tawriya or 'giving a misleading im-pression': words that are meant in one sense but understood in another, and by which even with the most difficult people one can avoid both lying and unnecessary conflict. When listening to someone he completely disagreed with, but who wanted him to confirm their words, he might comment, "Sound words indeed (Kalam salim"-meaning grammatically. Or if they asserted something patently untrue, he might say, "I'm with you (Ana ma'aka)," meaning physically. Or of the utterly preposterous, he might say, "Allah akbar (Allah is ever greatest)!".
—which was true
regardless. Or if they pressed him for some future commitment, he might say, "Allah willing, good will come of it (In sha' Allah, yahsulu 1-khayr)," which bound him to nothing.”
He also warned men and women against "soul fornication" zina), meaning sexual fantasies about other than one's Quse. How easily this is dismissed today merely shows how native sexual licence has become. It may gradually dawn on mankind that sexual licence produces utterly selfish men and women who lack the patience to have and care for families sufficient in size and psychic stability to maintain a people's survival. Like the women's movement, recreational drugs, homosexuality, and other darlings of modern liberalism, it is an evolutionary dead end.
This is even truer of the "virtual licence" of cyber-porn, bringing with it the looming apparition of half the human race, women, utterly nauseated by the other half's addiction to it. Women simply do not empathize with men's low fascination with sordid sexual images. It merely repulses them, and they find it pathetic.
Time alone will tell how love or trust or marriage can exist between a woman and a man for whom her respect is absolutely zero. Where there is no respect, there is nothing any woman would want to regard as a man, making friendship and intimacy impossible. The northern peoples of the world appear threatened today by nothing if not this, a victimless crime that merely extinguishes whole races. From Hajji Baba's perspective, it looks like a divine punishment for the hubris of moderns towards their Maker.
say, "Hayvanlk (animalism)." It typified the way he regarded man without religion, and his conviction that the primordial worth of a human being lay in his working relation with the Di-vine, his Iman and taqwa; and whatever prevented them was, in Hajji Baba's phrase, so much zehir or poison.
“be with Allah without any creation, and be with creatures without any ego,"
When we ail, we treat ourselves With Your Remembrance.
And we leave the Remembrance sometimes,
And we lessen.”
“Sufism could be summarized in a single word: invoke."
Dhikt is sufficient, provided it is accompanied by abandoning disobedience."
His manners towards Allah had been extremely refined by the dhikr. He was a master of guarding his tongue from anything unbecoming or unpleasant. Over the years, I became aware of his remarkable repertoire of tawriya or 'giving a misleading im-pression': words that are meant in one sense but understood in another, and by which even with the most difficult people one can avoid both lying and unnecessary conflict. When listening to someone he completely disagreed with, but who wanted him to confirm their words, he might comment, "Sound words indeed (Kalam salim"-meaning grammatically. Or if they asserted something patently untrue, he might say, "I'm with you (Ana ma'aka)," meaning physically. Or of the utterly preposterous, he might say, "Allah akbar (Allah is ever greatest)!".
—which was true
regardless. Or if they pressed him for some future commitment, he might say, "Allah willing, good will come of it (In sha' Allah, yahsulu 1-khayr)," which bound him to nothing.”
He also warned men and women against "soul fornication" zina), meaning sexual fantasies about other than one's Quse. How easily this is dismissed today merely shows how native sexual licence has become. It may gradually dawn on mankind that sexual licence produces utterly selfish men and women who lack the patience to have and care for families sufficient in size and psychic stability to maintain a people's survival. Like the women's movement, recreational drugs, homosexuality, and other darlings of modern liberalism, it is an evolutionary dead end.
This is even truer of the "virtual licence" of cyber-porn, bringing with it the looming apparition of half the human race, women, utterly nauseated by the other half's addiction to it. Women simply do not empathize with men's low fascination with sordid sexual images. It merely repulses them, and they find it pathetic.
Time alone will tell how love or trust or marriage can exist between a woman and a man for whom her respect is absolutely zero. Where there is no respect, there is nothing any woman would want to regard as a man, making friendship and intimacy impossible. The northern peoples of the world appear threatened today by nothing if not this, a victimless crime that merely extinguishes whole races. From Hajji Baba's perspective, it looks like a divine punishment for the hubris of moderns towards their Maker.
say, "Hayvanlk (animalism)." It typified the way he regarded man without religion, and his conviction that the primordial worth of a human being lay in his working relation with the Di-vine, his Iman and taqwa; and whatever prevented them was, in Hajji Baba's phrase, so much zehir or poison.
August 23, 2014
Deeply inspiring book that encompasses various aspects of the science of spirituality with emphasis on the Shadhili Darqawi way. Highly recommended!
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