The Repose of the Spirits
The Repose of the Spirits

Author: Ahmad Sam'ani

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 710

ISBN-13: 1438473338

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Major new translation of a unique and important Persian treatise on divine names in the Islamic tradition. The Repose of the Spirits is a translation of one of the earliest and most comprehensive treatises on Sufism in the Persian language. Written by Aḥmad Sam‘ānī, an expert in Islamic law from a famous Central Asian scholarly family in about the year 1135, it is one of the handful of early Sufi texts available in English and is by far the most accessible. It also may well be the longest and the most accurately translated. Ostensibly a commentary on the divine names, it avoids the abstract discourse of theological nitpicking and explains the human significance of the names with a delightful mix of Quranic verses and sayings of the Prophet and various past teachers, interspersed with original interpretations of the received wisdom. Unlike the usual books on the divine names (such as that of al-Ghazali), The Repose of the Spirits reminds the reader of the later poetical tradition, especially the work of Rumi. The prose is richly embroidered with imagery and interspersed with a great variety of Arabic and Persian poetry. What is especially remarkable is the manner in which the author speaks to his readers about their own personal situations, explaining why they are driven by a love affair with God, a God who is full of compassion and good humor, whether they know it or not. William C. Chittick’s masterful new translation brings this work to an English-language audience for the first time. “This is a wonderful introduction to the particular style, imagery, terminology, and worldview of Sufism, as well as to the ways in which the Persian cultural milieu added important elements to the Arabic intellectual and spiritual tradition in Islam.” — Maria Massi Dakake, author of The Charismatic Community: Shi‘ite Identity in Early Islam

Spirit of Repose
Spirit of Repose

Author: Adolfo Quezada

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-08-30

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 9781726092272

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This book encourages the reader to invoke the Spirit of Repose. We rest from our labor until we have rested enough to work again, and so it goes. But no matter how rested our body is, our soul is restless and in need of deep communion. Only the rest that we find in deep repose will bring us peace of soul.

The Spirits in Prison, and Other Studies on the Life After Death
The Spirits in Prison, and Other Studies on the Life After Death

Author: Edward Hayes Plumptre

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9781230297729

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... from their home in a dry and thirsty land, may be as prisoners of hope, not without the stronghold in which they may find refuge.9 May we not believe, rejecting with a righteous protest the dark dreams of the popular theology of Eome, that there (as one has said whose thoughts are higher than his system) the memory of the past, with all its shame and sadness--the prospect of the future, with all its hope and brightness--will work together to an issue which no material fires could accomplish--"That these two pains, so counter and so keen, The longing for Him when thou see'st Him not, The shame of self at thought of seeing Him," 10 shall act to purify what is base in us, and illumine what is dark? If the future is to be the development and continuation of the present, if we are not to pass from a life of ever-varying relations with our fellowmen, each bringing with it opportunities for selfdiscipline and for serving God, to an absolute isolation, may we not go yet one step further and believe, as some did in the earliest ages of the Church, and as others have thought of late, that those whose joy it has been in life to be fellow-workers with Christ in leading many to righteousness, may continue to be fellow-workers there, and so share the life of angels in their work of service as in their ministries of praise I1 The manifestation of God's righteous judgment and (9) Zech. ix. 12; Ezek. xvii. 68; xx. 13, 14. See Study I., On the Teaching of the Old Testament at to the Life after Death. (10) Cardinal Newman: Dream of Oerontius. (1) See Study xvi., On the Activities of the Intermediate State. P Prayers for the Dead. 25 of His changeless love may thus, using men and angels as His instruments, help to renew throughout His universe all who are...