Ranks of the divine seekers : a parallel English-Arabic text
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Ranks of the divine seekers : a parallel English-Arabic text
（Islamic translation series, v. 14）
Brill, 2020
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مدارج السالكين
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Winner of the 2021 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding (category: translation from Arabic into English)
This is an unabridged, annotated, translation of the great Damascene savant and saint Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's (d. 751/1350) Madarij al-Salikin. Conceived as a critical commentary on an earlier Sufi classic by the great Hanbalite scholar Abu Isma'il of Herat, Madarij aims to rejuvenate Sufism's Qur'anic foundations. The original work was a key text for the Sufi initiates, composed in terse, rhyming prose as a master's instruction to the aspiring seeker on the path to God, in a journey of a hundred stations whose ultimate purpose was to be lost to one's self (fana') and subsist (baqa') in God. The translator, Ovamir ('Uwaymir) Anjum, provides an extensive introduction and annotation to this English-Arabic face-to-face presentation of this masterpiece of Islamic psychology.
Table of Contents
5 The Station of Oft-Returning
1 Reform
2 Fulfillment
3 State
6 The Station of Remembrance
1 Conditions of Benefitting from Admonition
2 Contemplating the Qur'an
3 Five Things that Corrupt the Heart
4 Endless Desires for Worldly Things
5 Attachment to Things Other Than God
6 Gluttony
7 Sloth
7 The Station of Holding Fast
1 The Meaning of Holding Fast
2 The Holding Fast of the Elite
8 The Station of Fleeing
1 Fleeing from the Ego
2 Fleeing from All Other Than the Truth
9 The Station of Disciplining
1 The Disciplining of the Elite of the Elite]
10 The Station of Listening
1 Against Music
2 The Prohibition of Singing and Music
3 The Arguments of Those Who Permit Singing
4 First Principle: Scripture is the Judge of Mystical Knowledge
5 Second Principle: All Disagreements Are Judged by Scripture
6 Third Principle: The Weighing of Harm and Benefit
7 Spiritual Taste
8 Levels of Audition
9 The Audition of the Elite
10 The Audition of the Elite of the Elite
11 The Station of Grief
1 Levels of Grief
12 The Station of Fear
1 Kinds of Fear
2 Fear of Self-deception
2 Balancing Fear and Hope
13 The Station of Trembling
14 The Station of Humility
1 Putting Out The Fire of Ego
2 Recognizing the Lesions of One's Soul and Deeds
3 The Third Level
4 Humility and Attentiveness in Prayers
15 The Station of Meekness
1 Being Blind to People's Opinions
16 The Station of Renunciation
1 Is Renunciation Possible in These Times?
2 Parting from All Longings
3 Renunciation of Renunciation
17 The Station of Scrupulousness
1 Levels of Scrupulousness
2 The Web of Divine Stations
18 The Station of Devotion
19 The Station of Hope
1 The Excellence of Hope
2 Levels of Hope
20 The Station of Desire
21 The Station of Shepherding
1 Levels of Shepherding
2 Shepherding of Time
22 The Station of Watchfulness
1 Ranks of Watchfulness
2 Watchfulness of the Elite of the Elite
23 The Station of Venerating God's Prohibitions
1 Is God Worshipped for Fear of the Fire and Love for the Garden?
2 Conditions of Displaying One's Good Deeds
3 Venerating Scripture on Divine Attributes
4 Protecting the Divine Opening
24 The Station of Purification
1 Levels of Purification
2 The Second Level
2 Purification and Truthfulness
25 The Station of Refinement and Correction
1 Second Level
2 Third Level
26 The Station of Standing Firm
1 Exclusivity
2 The Soul of All States
3 Levels of Steadfastness
4 The Second Level
5 The Third Level
27 The Station of Trusting Reliance
1 Meaning of Tawakkul
2 Levels of Reliance
3 The Level of Joyful Contentment
4 Separating Relegation from Inaction and Negligence
5 Relating Reliance in God to the Beautiful Divine Names
6 Limiting Reliance to Unworthy Pursuits
7 Returning to al-Harawi on Trusting Reliance
8 The First Level according to al-Harawi
9 The Blemish of Asking of Creation
10 Third Level
28 The Station of Relegation
1 Second Level
2 Third Level
29 The Station of Trust in God
1 First Level
2 Second Level
3 Third Level
30 The Station of Submission
1 The Defects of Submission
2 Second Level
31 The Station of Patience
1 The Literal Meaning
2 Kinds of Patience
3 Patience according to al-Harawi
4 First Level
5 Third Level
6 Patience and God
32 The Station of Joyful Contentment
1 Contentment versus Patience in Suffering
2 Contentment and Tranquility
3 Three Levels of Contentment
4 The Three Conditions of Contentment
5 Second Level
6 Differentiating Normative and Ontological Commands
7 God's Wisdom in Creating the Devil
8 Sixty-Two Virtues of Contentment and Indifference to Pleasure and Pain
9 Returning to al-Harawi
10 Third Level
Index
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