Sea Without Shore A Manual Of The Sufi Path Nuh Ha Mim Keller by Nuh Ha Mim Keller 9781590080665, 9789957231903, 1590080661, 9957231901 instant download after payment.

The book has three parts. The first describes men I met and knew in the path. All were fonts of guidance whom God had blessed with His greatest gift: experiencing the incomparable Oneness of the Divine. I begin with them lest such men be thought to no longer exist, but also because they themselves had been taught by men who travelled the way before them, and regarded any other Sufi path as the pride that precedes a fall. The second part sets forth the rule of the Shadhili Order, the way of my sheikh and others mentioned in this volume, because it is a Sufi method that is tried and true. As a contemporary manual, some things are specific to our times, but most will never change as long as there is any path. A third part contains answers to theological questions of our day that travellers may need. The Arabic terms are glossed where they first appear in the present work or defined in a glossary in the back. A few proper Arabic names have been spelled as they are by their owners or as colloquially pronounced. ‘The text is uncluttered with reference notation for most brief maxims and poetry of the Sufis, whose instruction remains even today mainly spoken. Documentation is rather confined to texts cited as evidence, whether Koran, hadith, or written authorities, and consists of a parenthesized shortened title of the work, followed by a bracketed number locating it in the Works Cited, then the quotation’s volume and page number, or if a hadith, its number and authenticity rating using one of the abbreviations given on the following page. 

May our Almighty Master grant us the supreme grace of His Divine Presence in this world and the next: “Nor is that difficult for Allah” (Koran 35:17).