![]() ![]() been published several times and has also been translated into Arabic and Urdu. Grand Ayatullah Imam Khomeini is considered among the greatest yet rare. ![]() Kitab Khanah mawsum bih Kashf al-Hajib dar Idarah-yi Mirza Khan. Jala wa Asrar al-Khafa ka Nuskhah-yi Khuda Bakhsh,” Ma↩arif (Aza. lamicus 13, 2 (Summer 1990): 75–77 Erkan Turkmen, “Divan-i Hafiz-i. Arabic and Persian, and Urdu collections in the British Library are of. 139 I do not speak Urdu, and despite the assertions of my informants that . 21 Adelkhah (2000:176-77) breaks with other scholars and suggests that. 12 Including works such as Kashf al-Asrar va 'Uddat al-Abrar (Unveiling. The Revolution overthrew the Shah and Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile. imam khomeini book kashf ul asrar in urdu.A rather interesting recommendation on his part. It’s interesting that they were all Sunni’s with the exception of Mulla Sadra and probably Ibn Sina. As a contribution to remedying the situation, the Imam proposed that Gorbachev dispatch Soviet scholars to Qum to study the Sufi works of al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, Suhrawardi, Mulla Sadra, and Ibn ‘Arabi. The essential problem confronting Russia, the Imam asserted, was not that of property, the administration of the economy, or personal freedom, but the absence of a valid faith in God. In a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, dated January 4, 1988, the Imam not only foretold the collapse and utter discrediting of Communism, with a prescience that outstripped the expertise of conventional Kremlinologists, but also warned against the spiritual and ethical chaos into which post-Soviet Russia has now in fact fallen. The Imam’s concern that Sufism should be properly known expressed itself even in the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Influence of Sufism on Imam Khomeini’s Foreign Policy Therefore I sought refuge in someone who was inwardly I took off the dress of asceticism and dissimulation. ![]() See my stained cloak and this prayer-rug of hypocrisy Ĭan I, one day, tear them to shreds at the tavern door? “Īnd proclaimed the slogan – “I am the Truth”,Īnd my affairs became the talk of the town.īecause, I became disgusted with the Mosque as well as the Seminary. I have yearned a lifetime to see the Beloved’s face Ī wild rue seed pod roasting in the fire. “Oh, I desire a cup of wine from the Beloved’s own hands. His Sufi poems shed light on this aspect of his worldview. According to his biographers, the Imam’s interest in these Sufi texts, particularly the last Naqshbandi text, remained demonstrably with him throughout his life. 1089), a disciple of the great Naqshbandi sage, the venerable Khwaja Abul Hasan ‘Ali ibn Ja’far ibn Salman al-Kharqani. 1274), Ibn Arabi’s adopted son, also a Qadiri luminary, and the Manazil al-Sa’irin of Khwaja ‘Abdullah Ansari (d. 1350) on the Fusus al-Hikam of Ibn ‘Arabi, a luminary of the Qadiri Order, the Miftah al-Ghayb of Sadr al-Din Qunavi (d. Every Thursday and Friday, as well as on holidays, usually alone but sometimes in the company of one or two other students, the Imam listened to Shahabadi lecturing on Sufi texts on the commentary by Da’ud Qaysari (d. After initially refusing the Imam’s request for permission to study with him, Shahabadi consented to teach him philosophy, but it was gnosis the Imam wished to pursue, and he persisted until Shahabadi agreed to instruct him in that discipline. He met Shahabadi soon after the latter’s arrival in Qum (probably in the late 1920’s), and the answer he gave the Imam to a question on ‘irfan convinced him that he was in the presence of a true master. The Imam’s chief teacher in Sufism was Ayatullah Muhammad ‘Ali Shahabadi (d.1950), to whom he respectfully referred in his own writings on ‘irfan as “our master in theosophy” (ustad-i ilahi-yi ma). ![]() It may shock Iranians to learn in the 1940’s Grand Ayatollah Khomeini accepted the idea of a limited monarchy under the Iranian Constitution of 1906–1907 - as evidenced by his book Kashf al-Asrar and that Imam Khomeini had an interest in Sufism/Irfan will probably come as even more a surprise to many inside the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Sufi Poetry of His Eminence, the Late Grand Ayatollah, Imam al-Sayyid Ruhollah Mustafawi Musawi Khomeini ![]()
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