Al-Kafi – Shia interviews with the Divine
Al-Kafi is a fundamental and classic Shia-text written by the fourteen infallible family members of Prophet Muhammad, (Divine Supreme Covenant Body) to their followers. This volume of al-Kafi, which is about seven hundred pages, is considered to be a text of an interview with a person who possesses Divine authority. It is among Shia scholars [...]
The Tawasin of Mansur Al-Hallaj
Author of The Tawasin, Mansur Al-Hallaj was a Persian mystic, revolutionary writer and teacher of Sufism most famous for his apparent, but disputed, self-proclaimed divinity, his poetry and for his execution for heresy at the orders of the Abbasid Caliph Al-Muqtadir after a long, drawn-out investigation. The Afghan sufi scholar Idries Shah suggested that [...]
Divine Justice or The problem of Evil
Divine Justice or The problem of Evil by Javad Shayvard is published by the World Organization for Islamic Services in Tehran in 1977. It deals with the problems of justice, moral and concepts as evilness from a Shia point of vie.
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Divine Justice or The problem of Evil
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The concept of Allah in Islam
From the intro: “The concept of Allah in Islam is not written for those who deliberately misrepresent the Islamic faith, for these will never see anything except through their own tinted glasses, and there is no cure for their blindness. Rather, it is written for open-minded and fair non-Muslims who sincerely wish to know how [...]
Be Still, It Is The Wind That Sings
Be Still, It Is The Wind That Sings is a collection of works by Arthur Osborne. In these texts (467 pages) you will find a selection of his poems and thoughts about Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism and Christianity.
From the poem “The Sleeping Beauty”
“A pretty children’s tale is found
Of how a lady slept spell-bound
Through time’s long night, [...]
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THE PERSIAN MYSTICS – JALALU’D-DIN RUMI
The Mystics of Islam by Reynold A. Nicholson