The Lamp of Love

 The Lamp of Love  -  Journeying with the Sabri Brothers,
Paperback - 147 pages,
by Amatullah Armstrong Chishti.

Illustrations note: 18 coloured photos.

Description :

This book recounts the unfolding of a dream and the journey that took the author from the midst of an Australian bushland paradise to the rapture of devotion at the Shrines of the Great Chishtiyya Sufi Saints in Pakistan and India. It is a story of the yearning and searching for the Beloved, a story of love and loneliness.
 

The book tells of the unfolding of the author’s spiritual connection to the Sufi saints of the Indo-Pak subcontinent and to Pakistan’s legendary qawwals, the Sabri Brothers.


The narrative describes how she followed a dream that led to the discovery of spiritual treasures in both Pakistan and India, and of her direct experience of being engulfed in the ecstatic music of the Sabri Brothers.


Brief Synopsis: Offers the story of an Australian Sufi woman who became so inspired by the powerful and ecstatic music of Pakistan's legendary qawwals (Sufi singers), the Sabri Brothers, that she left the tranquility of the Australian countryside to settle in the midst of over-populated Karachi, in order to immerse herself deeply in the Sufi tradition and music.
The author elaborates upon the Sufi spiritual journey, highlighting the abysses and peaks encountered in the continuing search for higher knowledge. She records her impressions of life in Pakistan where she settled in order to immerse herself more deeply in qawwali and the Sufi traditions.

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