[UitEz0Qo]

As most of you have probably noticed there are a lot of nice translations of the Chishti Tasawuf manuals. Examples are:

a) The Path to Perfection (Shaykh Masihullah Khan Sherwani)
b) Irshaadul Mulook (Shaykh Aashiq Ilahi Merathi)
c) Shariah and Tariqat (Shaykh Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhlawi)

I thought we could list the Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi books in this thread (those that have been translated into English).

These are the titles I have come across:

Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi - Mujaddid Alf Thani (rhA):

- Sufism and Shar'iah: A Study of Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi's Effort to Reform Sufism
(Not by the shaykh himself but by Muhammad Abdul Haq Ansari - not sure of his credentials...)
- Faith Practice and Piety; an Excerpt from the Maktubat (translated by Irshad Alam)
- Mujaddid Alf Thani Sirhindi's Conception of Tawheed (Not by the shaykh himself but by Burhan Ahmad Faruqi - not sure of his credentials...)
- Hazrat Mujaddid & his critics (Not by the shaykh himself but by Shah Abulhasan Zaid Faruqi - not sure of his credentials...)

Shaykh Zulfiqar Ahmad (db):

- Wisdom for the Seeker
- Travelling Across Central Asia
- Love for Allah
- Love for the Prophet
- The Love of the Scholars of Deoband for the Messenger...
- The Love of Hadrat Abu Bakr...
- The Love of the Sahabah for the Messenger...
- The Love of the Sahabiyat for the Messenger...
- The Love of the Children for the Messenger...
- The Love of the Poets for the Messenger...

Shaykh Asif Farooqi (db):

- From Darkness to Light

[YTmWSOA5]

- Sufism and Shar'iah: A Study of Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi's Effort to Reform Sufism
(Not by the shaykh himself but by Muhammad Abdul Haq Ansari - not sure of his credentials...)

Have you read this book?

[CaseyFronczek]

Have you read this book?

Where can i get The Path to Perfection from? Is it available to download?

[virtuah]

Where can i get The Path to Perfection from? Is it available to download?

i aint got that one but here are some available for download

http://themajlis.net/books-index-req...cat-cid-6.html

[YTmWSOA5]

Where can i get The Path to Perfection from? Is it available to download?

This is similar but I don't think it is complete. It is worth buying the book.

http://www.inter-islam.org/faith/taswwuf1.html

The book Shariat and Tasawwuf in the link by Fake Shaykh is the same book but an older translation.

The new translation of it is published under The Path to Perfection by White Thread Press. The translation is excellent and I think they have changed the order around and made it much more readable and organised.

[UitEz0Qo]

Have you read this book?

Nope... I just came across the title on Google or Amazon I think.

[YTmWSOA5]

Nope... I just came across the title on Google or Amazon I think.

OK it's a really interesting book. I bought it because Mufti Kamaluddin mentioned it in one of his talks. It's around 300 pages I couldn't put it down finished it in 2 days.

He speaks a lot about the Mujaddid Alf Thani (RA)'s view on ecstasy and utterances in the state of ecstasy. Really interesting. If you read the whole book with all his notes at the back you will learn a lot about early Sufis too.

He discusses the difference between Ibn al-Arabi (RA)'s wahdatul wujood and Mujaddid (RA)'s wahdatu-shuhood. Shah Waliyullah (RA) comes about 100 years after Mujaddid Alf Thani (RA) and he speaks briefly about how he attempts to reconcile between wujoodi and shuhoodi understandings. He disagrees quite bluntly with Shah Waliyullah (RA) and ibn al-Arabi (RA) in favour of Mujaddid Alf Thaani. He also speaks about how one of Mawlana Jani Jaanaan's Khalifah refutes Shah Waliyullah (RA)'s attempt to reconcile between the two.

In the end of the first part he finishes with ibn Taymiyyah (RA)'s view on tasawwuf and says it is very similar to the Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi practices. He shows that ibn Taymiyyah (RA) praises sufis who would not entertain ecstatic states like Abdul Qadir al Jilani, Junayd al-Baghdadi (RA) etc.

The second part of the book is all translations of parts of the Maktoobaat.

Anyway I wouldn't say it's a book of the Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi's, its more an academic work but not overly academic in that you can actually read it and understand it.

The author studied in Indian universities and also did an MA in Harvard. If I remember correctly he was born in the 1930s so if he's still alive he'll be pretty old.

[UitEz0Qo]

OK it's a really interesting book. I bought it because Mufti Kamaluddin mentioned it in one of his talks. It's around 300 pages I couldn't put it down finished it in 2 days.

He speaks a lot about the Mujaddid Alf Thani (RA)'s view on ecstasy and utterances in the state of ecstasy. Really interesting. If you read the whole book with all his notes at the back you will learn a lot about early Sufis too.

He discusses the difference between Ibn al-Arabi (RA)'s wahdatul wujood and Mujaddid (RA)'s wahdatu-shuhood. Shah Waliyullah (RA) comes about 100 years after Mujaddid Alf Thani (RA) and he speaks briefly about how he attempts to reconcile between wujoodi and shuhoodi understandings. He disagrees quite bluntly with Shah Waliyullah (RA) and ibn al-Arabi (RA) in favour of Mujaddid Alf Thaani. He also speaks about how one of Mawlana Jani Jaanaan's Khalifah refutes Shah Waliyullah (RA)'s attempt to reconcile between the two.

In the end of the first part he finishes with ibn Taymiyyah (RA)'s view on tasawwuf and says it is very similar to the Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi practices. He shows that ibn Taymiyyah (RA) praises sufis who would not entertain ecstatic states like Abdul Qadir al Jilani, Junayd al-Baghdadi (RA) etc.

The second part of the book is all translations of parts of the Maktoobaat.

Anyway I wouldn't say it's a book of the Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi's, its more an academic work but not overly academic in that you can actually read it and understand it.

The author studied in Indian universities and also did an MA in Harvard. If I remember correctly he was born in the 1930s so if he's still alive he'll be pretty old.

Jazak Allahu khayran for that review! It does sound quite interesting. Do you know if any of the UK based online bookstores stock the book? I have only been able to find it on US based shops, like on this one:

http://www.onlineislamicstore.com/b4920.html

Edit:

I found it on Amazon.co.uk: http://tinyurl.com/yz9dlme

and there was this review of it too:

"This is without doubt one of the most comprehensive studies of a Sufi you are likely to find. The subject of the book Ahmed Sirihindi is perhaps one of the most important Sufis in recent centuries. It was from him that most of the major Naqshibandi orders derive from in India and Pakistan and also the Khalidi Naqshibandi order that spread to almost all the Turkish speaking countries, the Balkans and the Arab Middle East.

The book not only gives an extensive biography of Shaykh Ahmed Sirihindi (His teachers, where he studied etc) But also covers some of the thorny issues relating to Sufism (Such as Wahdat al Wajud (oneness of being) and ibn Qayyum and ibn Taymiyya two Islamic scholars who have been most famous for being known opponents of Sufism. The author Ansari points out that not only were they not opponents of Sufism (But rather only certain aspects of Sufism that they disapproved of) But they were also in fact Sufis themselves of the Qadiri Sufi order (A Sufi order with strong links to the Hanbali School of thought to which ibn Qayyum and ibn Taymiyya belonged.

The book also provides the reader with a large translation of Sirihindis most famous book the Maktubat. A book that is still very well read and studied amongst Sufis in Turkey.

A highly recommended book to anyone with an interest not only in Indian Subcontinent Sufism but also in the Sufi reform movements that took place in the 18th and 19th Centuries across the Middle East and Africa and also the modern Sufi orders of today."

[DebtDetox]

Where can i get The Path to Perfection from? Is it available to download?

Some first few pages are uploaded to the net in the following link.

http://www.4shared.com/file/16233728...n_Tasawuu.html

[appletango]

Jazak Allahu khayran for that review! It does sound quite interesting. Do you know if any of the UK based online bookstores stock the book? I have only been able to find it on US based shops, like on this one:

http://www.onlineislamicstore.com/b4920.html

Edit:

I found it on Amazon.co.uk: http://tinyurl.com/yz9dlme

and there was this review of it too:

went to the library today and by the grace of Allah, found this book amongst a few others I was looking for!!!!

I obviously quickly grabbed it

from the back of that review,can't wait to read it now.

[DebtDetox]

I thought we could list the Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi books in this thread (those that have been translated into English).

There are some amazing books on Nakhsbandi tariqah before
Hazrat Mujaddidi ( RAH ) .

One such book is " Rashhat Ain al Hayat " -- Beads of Dew from the source of life.

http://www.amazon.com/Beads-Source-L.../dp/1882216210

[DebtDetox]

Some more good books.

Travelling Across Central Asia

http://kitaabun.com/shopping3/produc...163&osCsid=b0d

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Saalaar-e-Naqshbandi Mujaddidia

author : Hazrat Shaykh Asif Hussain Faruqi ( DB ) in Manchester.

This book contains the biographies of the Nakhsbandi shaykhs from the beginning till Hazrat Ali murtaza ( RAH ).

This book is not sold online. If you contact any mureed of Hazrat Shaykh Asif Hussain Faruqi ( DB ), he will collect for you one free copy !!!

[DebtDetox]

The following book describes Nakhsbandi zikir practices.

" Zia ul Quloob (Glitter of the Hearts) " written by

Hazrat Haji Imdadullah Muhajar Makki ( RAH ).

http://bookstore.darul-hikmah.org/in...roduct_id=2856

[UitEz0Qo]

Saalaar-e-Naqshbandi Mujaddidia

author : Hazrat Shaykh Asif Hussain Faruqi ( DB ) in Manchester.

This book contains the biographies of the Nakhsbandi shaykhs from the beginning till Hazrat Ali murtaza ( RAH ).

This book is not sold online. If you contact any mureed of Hazrat Shaykh Asif Hussain Faruqi ( DB ), he will collect for you one free copy !!!

Yes one of the shaykh's murids told me about this book masha'Allah. But has the translation of it been published yet? I can't read Urdu.

[WhonyGataxott]

Hadrat Shaykh Zulfiqar sahib has written many books, many of which I have heard are being translated.

[DebtDetox]

Yes one of the shaykh's murids told me about this book masha'Allah. But has the translation of it been published yet? I can't read Urdu.

Yes. Already published.

[Vmysobfi]

Naqshbandi silsila goes to Abu Bakr radiAllahu anhu and not Ali radiAllahu anhu like all the other silsilas.

[Pashtet]

Yes. Already published.

Where could i get a copy of this book?

[DebtDetox]

Where could i get a copy of this book?

If you live in the UK , then you may contact any of the Nakhsbandi mureeds and then visit their khanqah either in Manchester or Greater London. There you will get your copy.

If you are outside the UK, then somebody should be kind enough to get the book from the khanqah and send it to you via post.

[GueseVekdet]

I was recommended a book titled Sufi Heirs of the Prophet which can be found here http://www.amazon.com/Heirs-Prophet-...2123391&sr=8-1