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What the Knowers of Allah have said About the Knowledge of Allah,
*[A5] Paperback - 197 pages, English & Arabic [Bi-lingual]- NEW,
by Imam Cheikh Tidiane Ali Cisse,
Translated by Zakariya Wright & Muhammad Hassiem Abdullahi,
Published by Fayda Books, USA.

Description :

What the Knowers of Allah have said About the Knowledge of Allah, concerns the ma'rifat-Allah, the experiential knowledge of God, sometimes translated as gnosis or cognizance. Ma'rifa is often considered the essence of the Sufi path, for it meant to actualise the last stage of the Islamic religion : after al-Islam (submission) and al-Iman (faith) comes al-Ihsan (excellence) :-

''to worship God as if you are seeing Him, & if you
are not seeing Him, know that He is seeing you.''

The work presented here was originally written for delivery at a Mawlid celebration in Abidjan, Ivory Coast in 2011. It concerns ma'rifat-Allah, the experiental knowledge of God, sometimes translated as gnosis or cognizance.

Table of Contents :

---Introduction to the Translation,

---What the Knowers of Allah Have Said About the Knowledge of Allah,
-----The Reality of the Knowledge of Allah,
-----The Path to Gnosis,
-----The Doctrine of Unity among the Gnostics,
-----The Need for Companionship with a Gnostic,
-----The Comportment (adab) of the Perfected Actualised Gnostic Sages,
-----Bewilderment and Surrender,
-----The Veil (al-Hijab)
-----Entering the Holy Presence,
-----Qur'an Verses and Prophetic statements explaining Gnosis,
-----The Claim of the Cessation of Spiritual Training in the earlier generations and the Response of the Sahib al-Fayda,
-----The Tijani Sufi path and the Way of Gnosis,
-----Breaths of Lights in the statements of Allah's Exalted Folk,
-----Shaykh Ahmad al-Tijani on Divine Witnessing,
-----Shaykh al Islam Ibrahim Niasse on Divine Manifestation in Created Forms (tajalli suri),

-----Conclusion.

---Arabic Section:
-----What the Knowers of Allah Have Said About the Knowledge of Allah,

* Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.2cm.

[Bi-lingual] Contains separate English & Arabic texts.

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