The Sublime Treasures

The Sublime Treasures - Table of Contents :

---Translator's Introduction,

---[1].  The thoughts that occur to one who has reached God the Exalted,
---[2].  The sins of the gnostics,
---[3].  Ranks of the men of God,
---[4].  Mixing with sinful persons,
---[5].  Being slow to acts of goodness, while fond of goodness and good people,
---[6].  To conceal or reveal one’s activities,
---[7].  Which of the Qur’an, tasb?, or tahl?l is better for a wird?
---[8].  To prolong each ritual prayer or shorten it to increase the number of prayers?
---[9].  On thoughts that occur at night.
---[10]. The farthest people from God the Exalted are those who refer to Him most frequently,
---[11]. The soul’s address to the heart,
---[12]. Should the shaykh be loved for himself, his qualities, or the comfort that he provides?
---[13]. The prayer of the Prophet, may God’s blessings & peace be upon him, for Ibn ‘Abbas,
---[14]. Those who are too occupied with the remembrance of God to petition Him,
---[15]. A shaykh should know the principles of religion and their applications,
---[16]. The circles of the saints,
---[17]. Denying the karamat of the saints,
---[18] .The angels’ interrogation of people in their graves,
---[19]. On the gardens of Paradise and the fire,
---[20]. On preferring others to oneself,
---[21]. The times for the morning and evening invocations,
---[22]. Rubbing one’s body after recitation,
---[23]. The meaning of ‘traveling’ to God the Exalted,
---[24]. Discretion as regards spiritual states and stations,
---[25]. Standing before God,
---[26]. The disciple’s blameworthy desire for karamat,
---[27]. Are the angels superior to the Prophets?
---[28]. Non-Arabic words in invocations and prayers,
---[29]. “God does what He wills, whether of possible or impossible things.”
---[30]. Sitting with those before whom one is shy,
---[31]. Does ostentation cancel a deed’s reward?
---[32]. Acting for the sake of other-worldly rewards,
---[33]. Remembrance: silent or aloud?
---[34]. A valley in hell for hypocrite scholars,
---[35]. On experiences of remembrance,
---[37]. Invocations of the tongue then of the heart,
---[37]. A state of absence–that occurs to the invokers,
---[28]. Sicknesses of the heart of no known cause,
---[39]. Good works bearing fruits in this world,
---[40]. Comparison between two persons in their expectation of death,
---[41]. The beginning of the quest (irada),
---[42]. Heat that invokers experience inwardly,
---[43]. The benefits consequent upon saying la' ila'ha illa’llah,
---[44]. On isolation (‘uzla),
---[45]. “A man is with whom he loves.” 
---[46]. Conditions in which God establishes His servants,
---[47]. States of the soul during remembrance,
---[48]. ‘Spontaneity.’
---[49]. Relative merits of poverty and wealth,
---[50]. Prolongation of lifespans,
---[51]. “The soul falls back on its habits when hardships come...”
---[52]. Acting according to the noble stations,
---[53]. Fearing ostentation,
---[54]. ‘Knowledge’, ‘eye’ and ‘truth of certainty.’
---[55]. Reflecting on the stations,
---[56]. “Listening, then understanding, then arriving, then tasting.”
---[57]. The shaykh refining the disciple,
---[58]. The meaning of “erasure.”
---[59]. More on “A man is with whom he loves.”
---[60]. On falling back,
---[61]. The rules of isolation and retreat,
---[62]. Experiences and unveilings of the gnostics,
---[63]. On the disciple’s closeness to the master,
---[64]. Verses by Shaykh Abu ‘Al? Al-Rudhbar?,
---[65]. Thoughts that alarm,
---[66]. Remaining seated in one’s place after the dawn prayer,
---[67]. The difference between powerlessness and weakness,
---[68]. Comparison between two shaykhs,
---[69]. “Who is the disciple?
---------Who is the Sufi,
---------What is Sufism?
---------What does a man do to become a Sufi?”
---[70]. Sulük, munazalat, and istilam,
---[71]. Invoking blessings on the Messenger of God after adhan,
---[72]. On backbiting,
---[73]. Do the believers among jinn share in gnosis and the vision of God?
---[74]. Can a man with no progeny pray for his dhurriyya?
---[75]. On people sprouting before the resurrection,
---[76]. How a man can enter the Garden from all eight gates,
---[77]. Hadiths concerning the resurrection of arrogant people in the form of small specks of dust,
---[78]. Imam al-Ghazal?’s saying “Not everyone has a heart.”
---[79]. The Prophet answers Muslims who salute him,
---[80]. Forms of the people of the Garden and those of the Fire,
---[81]. To have more than one shaykh,
---[82]. On audition,
---[83]. The first step on the path of God,
---[84]. Should the disciple commit himself entirely to the Master?
---[85]. Differences between the visible and invisible realms,
---[86]. On following an example,
---[87]. Attachment to created beings,
---[88]. Loving the virtuous,
---[89]. Reacting to praise and criticism,
---[90]. “He who knows himself knows his Lord.”
---[91]. “Audition” for those who have crossed the states and stations,
---[92]. The acts of created beings,
---[93]. About those Muslims who fought Sayyadina ‘Al?, radi Allahu ta'ala anhu,
---[94]. Gatherings held in mosques where love poetry is sung,
---[95]. On forgetting and being forgotten,
---[96]. The ram that the people of al-Gh?l call Musayir,
---[97]. On courtesy,
---[98]. One’s intention when one salutes the virtuous,
---[99]. Specific questions concerning the Sunna,
---[100]. About invocations before sleep,
---[101]. Whether the musabba‘at could be requited later if missed,
---[102]. Attending gatherings where music is played,
---[103]. Feeling more inclination for the sciences of the outward than for those of the inward,
---[104]. A specific question on adab,
---[105]. On reciting the wird while walking,
---[106]. The regular recitation of the litanies of Shaykh Abul Hasan al-Shadhil?,
---[107]. On certain verses of poetry,
---[108]. On the eternity of hell,
---[109]. Those who were never reached by the summons [to Islam] but who nevertheless behaved in certain matters according to the religious Law,
---[110]. On increasing in rank through one’s master,
---[111]. Teaching children and others,
---[112-118]. The definition of sincerity, the sincere, total truthfulness and the Sidd?q,
---[119]. Haq?qa and shar?‘a,
---[120]. On the saying of a shaykh “I have given you authorisation for sciences that neither Messenger, Prophet nor near angel know about…”
---[121]. Questions on certainty and other matters,
---[122]. On different lengths of awrad,
---[123]. Donating the reward for one’s actions to the dead,
---[124]. On the saying “May God increase our reward for the affliction of prolonged distraction.”
---[125]. The faith of the follower,
---[126]. Which is better, knowledge or love?
---[127]. When one’s parents urge upon one the pursuit of worldly means,
---[128]. What if a wal? does something that damages his integrity?
---[129]. On the conditions for investiture,
---[130]. Can a man who fears ostentation teach religious sciences?
---[131]. The bodies of the people of the Garden and their speech,
---[132]. The children of Muslims and of idolators,
---[133]. A verse from Ibn al-Farid,
---[134]. People who are wronged and avenge themselves and others who do not,
---[135]. On extinction,
---[136]. The levels of the garden,
---[137]. On a statement by Ibn al-‘Arab?,
---[138]. “Abandon all the world and you will find all the world.”
---[139]. Works to be done by day and works to be done by night,
---[140]. The community at the Resurrection,
---[141]. On reciting Sürat Al-Ikhlas,
---[142]. On divestment,
---[143]. Should the gnostic reprove the act of a created being?
---[144]. The perfection of gnosis,
---[145]. When dreaming of the saints stops,
---[146]. The science of signs,
---[147]. Seeking beneficial sciences,
---[148]. The sign of an unanswered prayer,
---[149]. The ‘resting pause.’
---[150]. Dedicating one’s reward for a monetary charity to the dead,
---[151]. On the term “light” as used by the Sufis,
---[152]. “The seventy and the eight” of Shaykh Abul-Hasan al-Shadhil?,
---[153]. Reciting the litanies of Shaykh Abul-Hasan al-Shadhil?,
---[154]. On circles of dhikr and other matters,
---[155]. On a saying of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace,
---[156]. Each verse of the Qur’an has an outward, an inward, a limit and a rising place,
---[157]. The maghrib prayer during Ramadan,
---[157]. The prayer for rain,
---[158]. On committing sins during Ramadan,
---[159]. On the Garden,
---[160]. On the hadith “Were I and the Son of Mary to be judged for what these two have committed…”
---[161]. On the hadith “The one who stands up [in prayer] with ten verses will not be recorded among the distracted…”
---[162]. On certain virtuous servants of God

---Glossary,
---Notes.

*Dimensions : 23 x 15.5cm (approx).