Words of Wisdom

Maqàlàt-e-Hikmat (The Words of Wisdom) are at once the Hadrat Abu Anees’s life story and sayings. The book has the accounts of his family living and upbringing, the heart rending eye witnessed massacre of Muslims during the independence and  partition of the sub-Continent of India in to Bharat and Pakistan (East and West) in 1947, his allegoric narrations as a pilgrim on the path of Sülook (theopathy or journey in to faqr), the hitherto rare glimpse in to the lives of well known sufi masters, the luminaries of Islam and fascinating tales of the not so well-known amongst them, and most of all painful dispatches from the battlefields of major defenders of the early history of Islam, especially martyrdom of Imam Hussain and tragedy of Karbala. These monumental writings are pristinely original, neither borrowed nor copied, the essence of his contemplations, and easy to read and digest. The orientalists have hailed these words as ‘lessons of reality’ which according to the author himself ‘provide spotlights for research in to all fields and aspects of Islam.’

Manifestations of the Stages of Blessing

The Words of Wisdom

Maqàlàt-e-Hikmat (The Words of Wisdom) are at once Hadrat Abu Anees’s life story and sayings. The books have the accounts of his family living and upbringing, the heart rending eye witnessed massacre of Muslims during the independence and  partition of the sub-Continent of India in to Bharat and Pakistan (East and West) in 1947, his allegoric narrations as a pilgrim on the path of Sülook (theopathy or journey in to faqr), the hitherto rare glimpse in to the lives of well known sufi masters, the luminaries of Islam and fascinating tales of the not so well-known amongst them, and most of all painful dispatches from the battlefields of major defenders of the early history of Islam, especially martyrdom of Imam Hussain and tragedy of Karbala. These monumental writings are pristinely original, neither borrowed nor copied, the essence of his contemplations, and easy to read and digest. The orientalists have hailed these words as ‘lessons of reality’ which according to the author himself ‘provide spotlights for research in to all fields and aspects of Islam.’

Words of Wisdom Volume 21

Words of Wisdom Volume 21

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The author Abu Anees Muhammad Barkat Ali writes in this Volume of his monologues about Hadrat Ibrahim bin Adham~(d.l60 AH/777 CE) that having abdicated the succession of a kingdom of forty princes to the State of Balkh and taken to indigence, he always said: "This merchandise (of faq'r) came by so cheap!" In another account it is reported to have accosted a man who bewailed of his condition and complained of poverty thus: "Myson, perhaps you paid but little for your poverty! I bought it at the price of this world’s ssovereignty, and I would buy one instant of this poverty again with a hundred worlds, for every moment of it becomes worth yet more to me: 'Many of Ibrahim bin Adham's ilk, the sultans of faq'r, came to pass as the Shajrah-i-Tayyibah, Dar-ul-Ehsan, also narrates some of them in the text of this Volume.

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