Commentaries

A series of enlightening discourses delivered in Cape Town, South Africa, by the leader of the Qadiri-Shadhili-Darqawi Tariqa in explanation of two Quranic passages and various Sufic texts and qasidas. Among the poems he examines are the famous Khamriyya of Ibn al-Farid and qasidas from the Diwan of Shaykh Muhammad ibn al-Habib. A pure Suc treatise, this book contains, among many other things, a denitive statement on the vital technical term khayal as used by Shaykh Ibn al-Arabi al-Hatimi, correcting Orientalist misconceptions about it and providing a real framework within which to understand the true processes of Divine illumination.