Shaykh Abdalqadir As-sufi

Commentaries Shaykh Abdalqadir As-sufi Global edition

A series of enlightening discourses delivered in Cape Town, South Africa, by the leader of the Qadiri-Shadhili-Darqawi Tariqa in explanation of two Qur?anic passages and various Sufic texts and qasidas. Among the poems he examines are the famous ?Khamriyya? of Ibn al-Farid and qasidas from the Diwan of Shaykh Muhammad ibn al-Habib. A pure Su?c treatise, this book contains, among many other things, a de?nitive statement on the vital technical term ?khayal? as used by Shaykh Ibn al-?Arabi al-Hatimi, correcting Orientalist misconceptions about it and providing a real framework within which to understand the true processes of Divine illumination.