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b"Title: An Introduction to the Book of Wisdoms Published by White Thread Press \\n\\nSpeaker: Dr. Mufti Abdur-Rahman ibn Yusuf\\n\\nShaykh Ibn Ata'illah al-Iskandari & Shaykh 'Abdullah Gangohi\\n\\nTranslation of the Hikam by Victor Danner Commentary Edited by Andrew Booso & Abdur-Rahman ibn Yusuf\\n\\nMuslim religious life not only consists of belief in orthodox tenets of faith and a determined effort to follow the Sacred Law, it also requires one to scale the heights of the spiritual path. The Kitab al-Hikam of Shaykh Ibn \\u2018Ata\\u2019illah al-Iskandari is the inspiring explanation of the soul\\u2019s journey through this life, as determined through the Qur\\u2019an and Sunna. Along with his treatises and intimate discourses (munajat), the substantive feature of the work is the author\\u2019s 264 spiritual aphorisms (hikam)\\xad\\u2014concise, comprehensive and sublime sayings on self purification (tazkiya), and guidelines to help strengthen the relationship between humans and their Lord. These aphorisms, which have never failed to inspire, are presented in this edition according to the systematic arrangement of the great Indian scholar Shaykh \\u2018Ali Muttaqi (d. 975/1567), together with the indispensable commentary of the twentieth-century sage Shaykh \\u2018Abdullah Gangohi."