{"product_id":"the-scholars-of-the-sufis","title":"The Scholars of the Sufis","description":"\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"shopify-section-product-template\" class=\"shopify-section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-template__container page-width\" id=\"ProductSection-product-template\" data-section-id=\"product-template\" data-section-type=\"product\" data-enable-history-state=\"true\" data-ajax-enabled=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"grid product-single product-single--medium-image\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"grid__item medium-up--one-half\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-single__description rte\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWritten by the erudite scholar, Sufi educator, ascetic, and author of many books, Sayyidi al-Shaykh ʿAbd al-Hadi b. al-Hajj Muhammad b. Salih al-Kharsa al-Dimashqi al-Salihi al-Shadhili al-Hanafi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eThe translation and publication of the present book,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eʿUlamaʾ al-Sufiyya Hum al-Salafiyya al-Haqiqiyyun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a welcome event for seekers of spiritual guidance and self-purification in our time. This praiseworthy effort offers to the English-speaking public a contemporary explanation of the immutable principles of Sufism, which are one and the same with the three principles of Religion: submission [\u003cem\u003eislam\u003c\/em\u003e], faith [\u003cem\u003eiman\u003c\/em\u003e], and excellence\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eihsan\u003c\/em\u003e]. The book contains Shaykh ʿAbd al-Hadi’s carefully presented anthology of the wisdom of the Sufi masters of old and their summations of doctrine [\u003cem\u003eʿaqida\u003c\/em\u003e] and of the various spiritual diseases and spiritual stations and states of the wayfarer. They were gleaned from the bio-sapiental classics of the genre such as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTabaqat al-Sufiyya\u003c\/em\u003e, the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLumaʿ\u003c\/em\u003e, the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRisala\u003c\/em\u003e, the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eIhyaʾ\u003c\/em\u003e, and can be found in later works such as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTabaqat al-Awliya\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eal-Kawakib al-Durriyya fi Tarajim al-Sufiyya\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eThe vehemence of the title—shown in the emphatic-exclusive personal pronoun and translatable as ‘The Scholars of the Sufis: [Only] They are the Genuine Followers of the Salaf!’—is a reminder of the tireless efforts of the last two hundred years of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAhl al-Sunna wal-Jamaʿa\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003escholarship demonstrating the Islamic orthodoxy of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003etasawwuf\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand denouncing the heresy of Wahhabism and pseudo-Salafism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eIt is its unique gems that make\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eʿUlamaʾ al-Sufiyya\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003estand out such as, for example, the title’s emphasis on knowledge: it is never about the Sufis at large but about their Gnostics; as for would-be-Sufi [\u003cem\u003emutasawwif\u003c\/em\u003e] claimants who are nescient of the Shariʿa or not even concerned by it: they are also heretics and completely undesirable no matter how big they grow their beard, turban, jubba, or voice! This is a theme stressed by many of our\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003esalaf al-salih\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(pious predecessors).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003eShaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNo. of Pages: 216\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBook Type: Paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN: 978-90-79294-1-69\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sunni Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54092151161172,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/1806\/9588\/files\/scholars-of-the-sufis-shaykh-abd-al-hadi-kharsa-front_1024x1024_2x_5ea8979a-d291-4a0f-a954-bdeedb23a376.webp?v=1775163720","url":"https:\/\/www.thesunnibookstore.com\/products\/the-scholars-of-the-sufis","provider":"The Sunni Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}