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A great Sufi leader,
an accomplished Maliki scholar, a poet and an erudite, spirited writer, the late
al-Shaykh Abd al-Mahmud al-Hafyan of Tabat (1919–1973), author of The
Bequest (Al-Wasiyya), left a great legacy of scholarly works in all
fields of the traditional Islamic sciences. Yet although his contributions to
the science of the sharia are outstanding, it is his contributions in the field
of haqiqa that most highly rank him amongst the most distinguished of
Sufi Muslims.
Sharia for Sufi
Muslims is the base of their belief, laws and practice. Haqiqa is the
essence, the fundamental truth that leads, through worship, devotion and the
love and fear of Allah, to the knowledge and recognition of the Divine, Allah.
It paves the way to harmonious living in this world and to eternal bliss in
Paradise. Thus to describe Sufism simply as mysticism and Sufis only as mystics
is to deny both their base and their legitimacy. The haqiqa of the Sufi
Muslim cannot exist without the Qur’an and the Sunna (Prophetic traditions).
This translation of
the Wasiyya, The Bequest, is but an approximation of the deep yet
elegantly and lucidly stated meanings of the sharia and the haqiqa of
Islam. It addresses not only the followers of the Samaniyya Order, or even all
Muslims, but all men and women, young and old, who care to listen to the advice
of a noble spirit and a great Sufi Muslim, whose influence transcends his time
and place.
* Format:
Paperback, 84 pages
* Size:
235 x 155mm
* Publisher:
Garnet Publishing Limited, UK (April 2007)
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ISBN:
978-0-86372-318-6
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