Living & dying with grace
Subtitle: counsels of Hadrat ʻAlī
By: translated from the Arabic by Thomas Cleary.
Contributors: Cleary, Thomas F., 1949-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Shambhala; Distributed in the U.S. by Random House
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Boston; [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
Subjects: ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, 600 (ca.)-661 -- Hadith; Hadith (Shiites)
Other titles: Living and dying with grace
Description: Living and Dying with Grace is a book of aphoristic Sufi teachings on how to make one's way in the world - especially on how to bring spiritual insight to the affairs of daily life. Sufism, the mystical branch of Islam, contains a vast body of knowledge concerning the inner development of the complete human being.

Among the greatest of Sufi masters, Hadrat Ali (598-661 CE), cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, is regarded as a paragon of compassion and virtue and a master of both exoteric and esoteric knowledge. He was not only a great warrior, statesman, and scholar, but a devoted husband and father.

This book contains four hundred of Hadrat Ali's teachings, showing how people can use the everyday realities of their lives to cultivate wisdom and well-being, both temporal and eternal, offering a path to living and dying with grace.