The Secret of Secrets

About The Book

An interpretative translation by Shaykh Tosun Bayrak of Sirr al-Asrar by Hadrat Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani (1077-1166 AD), considered by many to be one of the greatest saints of Islam and the eponymous founder of the Qadiriyya order.

This book, appearing in English for the first time, contains the very essence of Sufism, giving a Sufi explanation of how the outward practices of Islam - prayer, fasting, almsgiving, and pilgrimage - contain a wealth of inner dimension which must be discovered and enjoyed if external actions are to be performed in a manner pleasing to God. When this is achieved the soul finds true peace and the spiritual life becomes complete.

Table of Contents

	The Places of the Souls within the Body
	On Knowledge
	On Repentance
	On Remembrance
	On the Vision of God
	The Veils of Light and Darkness
	On the Purification of the Self
	On the Meaning of Ritual Worship and Inner Worship
	On Charity
	On Fasting Prescribed by the Religion and on Spiritual Fasting
	On the Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Inner Pilgrimage of the Heart
	On Withdrawing from the World
	On Dreams