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- Introduction
- Concerning the Starting Point of the Journey and its Requisites
- On the Removal of Obstacles and Hindrances from the Wayfarer's Path
- On Wayfaring in the Quest of Perfection, and the States of the Wayfarer
- On the States That Occur During Wayfaring Before the Attainment of the Goal
- Concerning the States of Those Who Attain Realization
- On Fana
Awsaf al Ashraf - The Attributes of the Noble
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Authors(s): Shaykh Khwaja Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Translator(s): Ali Quli Qarai
Publisher(s): al-Tawhid Islamic Journal
Topic Tags: Noble Attributes Spirituality
Category: Spirituality
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Language
English
Treatise about the Spiritual journey, its starting point, the removal of obstacles, states of the wayfarer, and attainment of the goal.
Journal: Vol.11, No.3, No.4 Miscellaneous information:
This treatise ascribed to Khwajah Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (597-672/1201-1273-4), the well-known philosopher, theologian, and astronomer who lived during the turbulent period of Hulagus invasion of Iran and the fall of the Abbasid caliphate, was written, as indicated in the preface by him, years after his Akhlaq-e Nairi, a classic of Muslim ethics and Persian literature. This translation is based on the edition of the work by Sayyid Mahdi Shams al-Din (Tehran: Sazman-e Chap wa Intisharat-e Wizarat-a Farhang wa Irshad e Islami, 2nd edition, summer 1370 H. Sh./). The editor has made use of two manuscripts of the work belonging to Ayatullah Najafi Marashi Public Library (one dated 16 Rajah 1064 H. and another without a date), a facsimile edition published in Berlin in 1927 (reprinted 1957), and a printed edition published about the year 1967 by Kitab furushi-ye Islamiyyah, Tehran.
Introduction
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بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِیمِ
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Immeasurable thanks are due to God, Whose reality no intellect can fathom and the knowledge of whose Being no thought or science can apprehend. Any expression describing Him, if affirmative, does not enter the conceiving mind without the traces of anthropomorphism, and if negative, is
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