Songs of Presence - Qasidas of the Shadhili Path Hearafter Each question & answer pair

Each question & answer pair is given first in Arabic

in this volume

and to seek reward as a gift from the Divine rather than a wage owed

destroy our own inner core while compromising our dignity

Songs of Presence - Qasidas of the Shadhili Path Hearafter Each question & answer pairIn Arabic and with explanatory notes in English From the Foreword by Shaykh Nuh Ha Mim Keller: The aim of Qasidas or spiritual odes, of which this manual is a compendium, is to worship Allah, by turning mens hearts to the Divine, who says, And when My servants ask you of Me, truly I am close (Koran 2: 186). The purpose of qasidas in the Sufi path is to convey the experiential gnosis of forebears to subsequent generations, for what comes from the heart