Spiritual Path, Spiritual Reality

Yousuf Dadoo, Emeritus Professor at the University of South Africa (UNISA), has taught and headed Arabic and Islamic Studies at UNISA for 29 years. He has authored and co-authored more than 50 publications and supervised more than 30 masters and doctoral students. Auwais Rafudeen is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Arabic at UNISA where he specialises in Arabic and Islamic Studies. He has published on various aspects of Islam in South Africa.

1. Introduction: The worldview of Shaykh Yusuf Translations 2. Providential gift: A breeze from Ceylon (Al Nafh̟at al-Ṣaylānīyyah fi l-Minḥat al- Rah̟mānīyyah) 3. The essence of secrets (Zubdat al-Asrār) 4. Consolation for the eyes (Qurrat al-‘Ayn) 5. Conditions of the verified gnostic (Shurūṭ al-‘Ārif al-Muḥaqqiq) 6. The crown of secrets regarding gnostic realisation (Tāj al-Asrār fī taḥqīq Mashārib al-‘Ārifīn) 7. A gift regarding the virtues of remembrance (Tuḥfat al-Amr fī Faḍīlat al- Dhikr) 8. The goals of the spiritual wayfarers (Maṭālib al-Sālikīn) 9. The secret of secrets (Sirr al-Asrār) 10. The gift of goodness to the people of innermost secrets (Tuḥfat al-Abrār li Ahl al-Asrār) 11. The method of remembering God (Kayfīyyat al-Dhikr) 12. A saving bequest (Waṣīyyah Munjīyyah) 13. The sequence of remembering God (Tartīb al-Dhikr) 14. The essential, indispensable existence (Wājib al-Wujūd) 15. The specification of remembering God (Ikhtiṣāṣ al-Dhikr) 16. The meaning of existence (Ma‘nā al-Wujūd) 17. The meaning of the phrase "There is no god but God" (Ma‘nā Qaul Lā ilāha illa llāh) 18. Twenty attributes (Ishrīn S̟ifah) 19. The reality of the soul (H̟aqīqat al-Rūh̟) 20. The permanent archetypes (Al ‘Ayān al-Thābitah) Transcription of the Arabic originals