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Kashf ul Mahjoob
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Kashf ul Mahjoob, also 'Kashf-ul-Mahjub' (translated: Revelation of the Veiled), is one of the most revered Persian treatises on Sufism. It describes a complete system of Sufism with its doctrines and practices. It was written by Ali Hujwiri, an 11th-century mystic, theologian and preacher.
Quotes
Knowledge is immense and life is short: therefore it is not obligatory to learn all the sciences, such as Astronomy and Medicine, and Arithmetic, etc., but only so much of each as bears upon the religious law: enough astronomy to know the times (of prayer) in the night, enough medicine to abstain from what is injurious, enough arithmetic to understand the division of inheritances and to calculate the duration of the Iddat. (see Idda)]
Chapter I, Affirmation of Knowledge, p. 80
See also
Ali Hujwiri
External links
Kashf ul Mahjoob, The Oldest Persian Treatise On Sufism, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, London, 1911
The Persian treatise of Sufism, Kashf ul Mahjoob: Justice Pir Muhammad Karam Shah Al-Azhari (1918 –1998), Zia-ul-Quran Publications, Lahore, 2001
Edward G. Browne: A Literary History of Persia, Vol. III, London, 1902-1925
J. T. P. De Bruijn: Persian Sufi Poetry, Curzon Press, Surrey, United Kingdom, 1997
Jan Rypka: History of Iranian Literature, Dordrecht (South Holland), 1968
Muhammad Riaz Qadiri: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam'', Gujranwala, Pakistan, 2004
Category:Islamic texts
Category:11th-century books
Category:Persian literature
Category:Sufism