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The Enclosed Garden of the Truth
Hakim Sanai · Islam · c. 1131 CE
Translated by Major J. Stephenson
92 chapters
The earliest Sufi didactic poem — on the journey to God through knowledge, love, and annihilation of the self.
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Contents
- 1PREFACE.
- 2I.--LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.
- 3II.--MANUSCRIPTS AND LITHOGRAPHS.
- 4Introduction: Life of the Author
- 5Introduction: Manuscripts and Lithographs
- 6Introduction: History of the Text
- 7Introduction: The Commentators
- 8Introduction: The Hadiqa
- 9Introduction: Sanai's Preface
- 10Book I: The First Book of the Hadiqa
- 11ON GOD AS FIRST CAUSE.
- 12ON PURITY OF HEART.
- 13ON THE BLIND MEN AND THE AFFAIR OF THE ELEPHANT.
- 14ON THE ABOVE ALLEGORY.
- 15OF THOSE WHO HEED NOT.
- 16ON THE STEPS OF ASCENT.
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