About The Book

Communities have always held some notion of unseen realms regardless of religion or culture. However, the modern age - an age of extreme materialism - is an anomaly in this regard with its systematic erosion of such ideas from the very psyche of man. People are finding it progressively more difficult to comprehend realities that exist beyond the framework of the physical world and how they tie in to the familiar material dimension we have become immersed in.

                       '' When Friday comes, angels stand at the door of the
                          Mosques, recording the order in which people enter, 
                          the first ones first. Once the Imam sits on the pulpit,
                          they fold up their records and enter to listen to the
                          remembrance.''

This unique book seeks to take the reader through various unseen realms that exist outside, or alongside the physical reality we experience. Drawing from the rich Islamic Tradition the author begins to unravel the various worlds of dreams, angels, demons, spirits and how man has experienced these realities throughout the ages.

                        '' One of the architects involved in maintenance and
                           repair work at the Prophet's Mosque, the Egyptian
                           Tariq al-Sharif, reports that in 1406 AH he was with
                           a group of men working on the rooftop of the mosque
                           and they had all stopped to pray the maghrib Prayer,
                           after which they had sat down to rest. He was over-
                           taken by light somnolence and saw that he was sitting
                           in a circle in the Prophet's presence. Someone was
                           going around serving dates, milk and coffee. When it
                           was his turn, he was overjoyed to hear the Prophet,
                           ﷺ say, ''Serve him, for he deserves more.''

This Book Covers 

• World of Dreams
• World of Imagination
• World of Similitudes (Angels, Jinn, Spirits etc ) ​

About The Translator

Dr. Mostafa Badawi was born in Cairo in 1948. He graduated from Cairo University Medical School in 1971 and thereafter completed his postgraduate training in the United Kingdom in 1985. He has been practicing as a consultant psychiatrist since then. Dr. al-Badawi has authored several books in English, including Man and the Universe: An Islamic Perspective, The Prophetic Invocations, and Sufi Sage of Arabia: Biography of Imam al-Haddad.

He is a distinguished authority on the history and teachings of the Ba 'Alawi Sayyids. He studied under many shaykhs, foremost among whom is the late Habib Ahmad Mashur al-Haddad.

Dr. Badawi is one of the leading contemporary translators of Islamic books from Arabic to English and has authored several books in Arabic. In addition, he has translated from the original Arabic into English several of Imam Abdallah ibn Alawi al-Haddad's works, including The Book of Assistance, The Lives of Man, Gifts for the Seeker, Wisdom and Knowledge, Good Manners, and Mutual Reminding. He also translated into English Habib Ahmad al-Haddad's Key to the Garden as well as Shaykh Abd al-Khaliq ash-Shabrawi's Degrees of the Soul.