Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

ASRAR-I-KHUDI (The Secrets of the Self)

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• INTRODUCTION
• 1. THE PHILOSOPHICAL BASIS OF THE ASRAR-I-KHUDI
• 2. THE EGO AND CONTINUATION OF PERSONALITY
• 3. THE EDUCATION OF THE EGO
• PROLOGUE
• I: SHOWING THAT THE SYSTEM OF THE UNIVERSE ORIGINATES IN THE SELF AND THAT THE CONTINUATION OF THE LIFE OF ALL INDIVIDUALS DEPENDS ON STRENGTHENING THE SELF
• II: SHOWING THAT THE LIFE OF THE SELF COMES FROM FORMING IDEALS AND BRINGING THEM TO BIRTH
• III: SHOWING THAT THE SELF IS STRENGTHENED BY LOVE
• IV: SHOWING THAT THE SELF IS WEAKENED BY ASKINGO
• V: SHOWING THAT WHEN THE SELF IS STRENGTHENED BY LOVE IT GAINS DOMINION OVER THE OUTWARD AND INWARD FORCES OF THE UNIVERSE
• VI: A TALE OF WHICH THE MORAL IS THAT NEGATION OF THE SELF IS A DOCTRINE INVENTED BY THE SUBJECT RACES OF MANKIND IN ORDER THAT BY THIS MEANS THEY MAY SAP AND WEAKEN THE CHARACTER OF THEIR RULERS
• VII: TO THE EFFECT THAT PLATO, WHOSE THOUGHT HAS DEEPLY INFLUENCED THE MYSTICISM AND LITERATURE OF ISLAM, FOLLOWED THE SHEEP'S DOCTRINE, AND THAT WE MUST BE ON OUR GUARD AGAINST HIS THEORIES
• VIII: CONCERNING THE TRUE NATURE OF POETRY AND REFORM OF ISLAMIC LITERATURE
• IX: SHOWING THAT THE EDUCATION OF THE SELF HAS THREE STAGES: OBEDIENCE, SELF-CONTROL, AND DIVINE VICEGERENCE
• 1. OBEDIENCESERVICE
• 2. SELF-CONTROL
• 3. DIVINE VICEGERENCY
• X: SETTING FORTH THE INNER MEANING OF THE NAMES OF ALI
• XI: STORY OF A YOUNG MAN OF MERV WHO CAME TO THE SAINT ALI HAJWIRI - GOD HAVE MERCY ON HIM!) AND COMPLAINED THAT HE WAS OPPRESSED BY HIS ENEMIES
• XII: STORY OF THE BIRD THAT WAS FAINT WITH THIRSTA
• XIII: STORY OF THE DIAMOND AND THE COAL
• XIV: STORY OF THE SHEIKH AND THE BRAHMIN FOLLOWED BY A CONVERSATION BETWEEN GANGES AND HIMALAYA TO THE EFFECT THAT THE CONTINUATION OF SOCIAL LIFE DEPEND ON FIRM ATTACHMENTS TO THE CHARACTERISTIC TRADITIONS OF THE COMMUNITY
• XV: SHOWING THAT THE PURPOSE OF THE MUSLIM’S LIFE IS TO EXALT THE WORD OF ALLAH , AND THE THAT THE (WAR AGAINST UNBELIVERS), IF IT BE PROMPTED BY LAND-HUNGER, IS UNLAWFUL IN THE RELIGION OF ISLAM
• XVI: PRECEPTS WRITTEN FOR THE MUSLIMS OF INDIA BY MIR NAJAT NAKSHBAND, WHO IS GENERALLY KNOWN AS BABD SAHR’AI
• XVII: TIME IS A SWORD
• XVIII: AN INVOCATION
• THE END
• NOTES