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Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart

Muhammad Mawlud(Auth.) · Hamza Yusuf (Trans.)
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This present text is based on the poem known as “Matharat al-Qulub,” which offers a means by which spiritual purification can be achieved.

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Hamza Yusuf
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Every tradition of sacred learning eventually turns its attention inward, and this is Shaykh Hamza Yusuf's contribution to that turning. *Purification of the Heart* is his translation and commentary on Imam al-Mawlud's poem *Matharat al-Qulub*, a work that treats the heart as the true origin of human suffering and, rightly tended, the seat of its cure.

Across roughly twenty-five diseases of the heart — miserliness, envy, hatred, arrogance among them — Shaykh Hamza Yusuf walks through the signs, symptoms, and prescribed remedies laid out in the original poem, offering practical means toward real spiritual transformation rather than abstract theorizing. Readers have described the language as demanding, the kind of book that rewards more than one sitting and repays the effort with deeper understanding each time.

This Sandala edition runs 220 pages and is also available in an iBooks digital edition, useful for readers who want it close at hand for the slower, returning kind of reading this subject asks for. For anyone drawn to the classical concern with the "Greater Jihad" — the struggle against the self — this is a fitting place to begin, and one worth keeping within reach long after the first reading.

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About the author

Muhammad Mawlud: Muhammad Mawlud (rahimahullah) was born around 1260 AH / 1844 CE in the desert country of Mauritania, a land whose inhabitants lived primarily as nomadic herders and subsistence farmers. Despite the austere environment, Mauritanians maintained a sophisticated system for preserving the sacred sciences of Islam through dedicated scholarly clans known as zawaya. Muhammad Mawlud was born into one such family, receiving what he himself would have called the Inheritance of the Prophets. His patrilineal line was distinguished by scholars, authors, and religious judges who administered traditional Islamic universities called mahadras: his father was Qadi Ahmed Fal, son of Qadi Muhamadhan Fal, son of Qadi al-Amin, son of Qadi al-Mukhtar, son of Qadi al-Fa'a Musa. From this heritage he inherited both the scholarly tradition and the ethos of the zawaya. He is most celebrated as the author of the didactic poem on the diseases of the heart and their spiritual cures, translated into English as 'Purification of the Heart,' and also authored 'The Rights of Parents.'

About the translator

Hamza Yusuf: Hamza Yusuf hafidhahullah (born 1960) is one of the most prominent American Muslim scholars of his generation and co-founder of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California. A steadfast advocate of classical learning in Islam, he has promoted Islamic sciences and traditional pedagogical methodologies throughout the world. He serves as an advisor to the Centre for Islamic Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, and as a member of the board of advisors of George Russell's One Nation, a national philanthropic initiative promoting pluralism and inclusion in America. He also serves as vice-president of the Global Centre for Guidance and Renewal, an institution founded and presided over by Abdallah bin Bayyah. He is among the signatories of A Common Word Between Us and You, an open letter from Islamic scholars to Christian leaders calling for peace and understanding. His published works include translations such as The Creed of Imam al-Tahawi and Purification of the Heart, and authored titles such as Agenda to Change Our Condition and Caesarean Moon Births.

Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN 9780985565909
Publisher Sandala
Author Muhammad Mawlud
Pages 268
Translator Hamza Yusuf
Year Published 2012
Size W-6 in | H-9 in | D-0.7 in
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