Spiritual Journey of the Mystics (Suluk al-Arifan)

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Author(s): Haj Mirza Javad Agha Maliki Tabrizi

Translator(s): Sayyid Hussein Alamdar

Category: Education Spirituality

Topic Tags: Irfan Mystic Philosophy Ramadhan

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Etiquette of the Holy Month of RamadhanEtiquette and codes of special deeds performed by Allah's most sincere servants during the Holy Month of Ramadhan; the self-restraint and asceticism practised by them during these worships and the self-purification achieved by them.

Dedication

This translation work is dedicated to the First Martyr of the Altar (Mehrab) during the Holy Month of Ramadhan, Imam 'Ali [a], as well to the lofty spirits of all the Martyrs of Islam, who waged Jihad and chose martyrdom for the way of Allah, proclamation of Monotheism (Tawhid), defence of Islamic lands, and governance of Qur'anic commands combating against the oppression and arrogance for the defence of deprived and oppressed.

A request from the Translator

Dear Readers! Please recite a Surah al-Fatihah for my deceased father, who left this transient world in the Holy Month of Ramadhan in the year 1976, thanks.

Translator's Foreword

“In the Name of Allah the Beneficent, the Merciful”

The Day of Judgement in the Holy Qur'an has been described as the Day of Regret (Yaum al-Hasrat), when the people would witness the inner essence of this world for the first time with their own eyes; they would then be crying: Is there a way to get out of Hell?(1)1

But then it would be too late. Unfortunately, for most of the people, it is only after their death or their being transferred into other world that they

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