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Jemima Torguson
The Hilyat al-awliya' is a substantial work in ten volumes, comprising a total of 650 biographies, amounting to about 4,000 pages in the printed edition. The work includes many biographies of early Islam. Most biographies of individuals that are directly involved with the development of Sufi mysticism are found in the tenth volume.
Hilyat ul- Awliya wa Tabaqat-ul-Asfiya (The Adornment of the Saints and the Ranks of the Spiritual Elite) is a biographical encyclopedic book by Shaykh Abu Nuaym Ahmad al-Isfahani. It provides with glimpses in to the lives of more than 200 awliya (saints) of this ummah in the first three centuries.
From the numerous prophetic sayings and those of the blessed companions of God's messenger quoted in this book, the reader will acknowledge that it is only by the grace of Allah that such blessed beings have recognized the signs of their Lord, and only through His guidance that they have forsaken the common to seek the uncommon, and intelligibly, they have departed from the ephemeral to pursue the eternal.
In this book, the reader will also recognize the plain and lucid approach to this most sensitive subject, and he will recognize the argument of scholars in this regard. Once the essence is understood, then these unique prophetic sayings and traditions of the blessed companions will stand clearly to refute the heretical trends of the innovators, and they will adamantly reject the utter confusion of the incarnationists (huliiliyun) who adhere to the doctrine of the divine "indwelling" in the human being, or the doctrine of the anarchist freethinkers (mubahiyiin), among other types of atheists.
However, their lies and denials cannot affect the truth, and their vehement attacks against it do not alter its purity, or influence the attainment of the pious ones. To the contrary, they will prove themselves wrong and their argument hollow, while the truth is clear and its adherents are exalted and pure. If the believers do not expose the trends of the innovators who clearly lack true knowledge, and mostly use the weak minded ones for their personal gains, heedlessness will continue to be the immediate cause of destruction, and the ultimate cause of eternal damnation in hell-fire.
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