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"Saadi’s Gulistan is a fragrant garden of brief tales and couplets where ethics, wit, and devotion bloom together..."

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Sufi Mysticism

Kashf al-Mahjub (Unveiling the Veiled)

by Ali Hujwiri

Medieval (500–1500 CE)AdvancedUnion with the Divine

The Bezels of Wisdom

by Ibn Arabi

Medieval (500–1500 CE)AdvancedSelf-Knowledge & Transformation

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Islamic Philosophy

The Alchemy of Happiness

by Al-Ghazali

Medieval (500–1500 CE)IntermediateSelf-Knowledge & Transformation

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Persian Wisdom Literature

The Gulistan (Rose Garden)

by Saadi

Medieval (500–1500 CE)IntermediateUnion with the Divine

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Saadi’s Gulistan is a fragrant garden of brief tales and couplets where ethics, wit, and devotion bloom together. Opening with praise for the Giver of breath, it wanders through courts and bazaars, roadside inns and monastic cells, gathering scenes of kings and beggars, merchants and sages. Each vignette glints with worldly realism and a Sufi warmth that invites humility, gratitude, justice, and mercy. Saadi teases out the follies of power and the tenderness of ordinary hearts, letting wisdom arrive as a smile, a sting, or a sigh. If you want guidance that feels lived in and luminous, stroll here and breathe.

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The Bezels of Wisdom is Ibn Arabi’s luminous map of the heart, casting the wisdom of each prophet as a jewel set in a ring. Born of a vision in which the Prophet entrusts him with these gems, it polishes facets of the one Reality and shows how God discloses Himself through names, forms, and the creative imagination. Stories become mirrors where the seeker sees the Real in the self and the self in the Real. Read slowly, as if crossing a garden before dawn, and you may feel the book rearrange your questions about love, knowledge, and being.

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Al Ghazali’s The Alchemy of Happiness is a luminous manual of inner transformation, where the heart is a mirror to be polished until it reflects the light of God. Drawing on the wisdom of Islamic philosophy and Sufi practice, he guides readers through knowledge of the self, of God, of this world, and of the next, showing how intention, remembrance, and honest self examination refine a troubled soul into spiritual gold. Everyday life becomes a workshop of virtue, from music and dance to marriage and work, when held with discipline and love. Clear, earnest, and humane, it offers a serious seeker a living path toward joy and responsibility.

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Attar’s classic Sufi poem sends the world’s birds, led by the wise hoopoe, on a perilous quest to find the Simorgh, a king beyond the mountain of Qaf. Crossing seven valleys of Quest, Love, Knowledge, Detachment, Unity, Wonderment, and Poverty, they shed fears and certainties through parables that probe the soul. Most fall away, undone by pride, desire, or comfort. The few who arrive at the end find not a distant sovereign but a mirror like lake, where thirty birds see themselves as the Simorgh. The tale invites seekers toward self emptying, shared courage, and the discovery of the Divine within.

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