The Sufi Path of Love, livre ebook

A. Seeing Things As They Are

1. Form and Meaning
2. Existence and Nonexistence
3. The Illusion of Dichotomy
4. "The Science of Religions"

B. Spirit, Heart, and Intellect

1. The Spirit
2. The Levels of the Spirit
3. The Ego and the Intellect
4. The Universal Intellect and the Partial Intellect
5. The Heart
6. Interrelationships

C. God and the World

1. The Essence, Attributes, and Acts
2. Gentleness and Severity
3. The Reason for Creation
4. Opposites
5. Good and Evil
6. Heedlessness and the Existence of the World

D. Man

1. The Trust
2. The Goal of Creation and the Intellect
3. The Covenant of Alast
4. The Descent and Reascent of the Spirit
5. Adam and Iblis
6. Man's Place among the Creatures
7. Angel vs. Satan: Intellect vs. Ego
8. The Return to God
9. Congeneity
10. The Touchstones
11. Death and Resurrection

Part II. PRACTICE

A. Doubters and Deniers

1. The Blindness of the Deniers
2. Fatalism and Free Choice

B. The Prophets and Saints

1. The Need for a Guide
2. Imitative Knowledge and Realized Knowledge
3. The Role of the Saints
4. The Shaykh
5. The Mirror of God
6. Rejecting the Prophets and Saints
7. Fales Masters

C. The Discipline of the Way

1. Spiritual Warfare
2. Remembrance of God
3. Man's Effort and God's Grace
4. Men and Women

Part III. ATTAINMENT TO GOD

A. Naughting the Self

1. Selfhood and Selflessness
2. Existence and Nonexistence
3. Annihilation and Subsistence
4. Affirmation and Negation: The Shahadah
5. Death and Rebirth
6. Poverty, Sufism, and Dervishhood
7. I am God"

B. Love

1. God As Love and Beyond Love
2. The World As Created by Love
3. The World As Maintained by Love
4. Love and Beauty: True and Derivative
5. Need and Aspiration
6. The Religion of Love
7. Love and the Intellect
8. Bewilderment and Madness

C. Separation and Union

1. Separation and Suffering
2. Union and Joy

D. Imagination and Thought

1. Imagination and the Created Order
2. Escaping Imagination
3. The Image Is All
4. Beyond the Image

E. Poesy and Imagery

1. Creation and Speech
2. The Worth of Poetry
3. Understanding Poetry and Speech
4. Interpretation of Imagery

F. The Garden of Spring
G. The Heart-Ravishing Beloved

1. The Witness
2. Vision of the Face

a. Vision
b. The Face
c. The Tresses
d. The Kiss

3. Jealousy

a. Smashing Idols
b. Maintaining Veils

H. Winedrinking and Revelry

1. Wine

a. The Cup
b. The Saki
c. The Ruins
d. The Drinking Companions
e. The Dregs

2. Intoxication and Sobriety
3. Winesickness
4. The Sama'
5. The Revelry of the Spirit
I. The Beloved's Beloved

1. Love's Call
2. Love's Messenger

Notes
Appendix: Notes on the Translations
Selected Bibliography
Index of Sources
General Index
Index of Koranic Quotations and Prophetic Sayings