Hashat bahist
Publisher: Shabir brothers
Published: August 2006
Description: Introduction

The collection of eight books of  speeches (malfuzat) of eight great Sufi masters of the Chishti order who were like the forefathers of this noble path and these Sufi masters are well known for all over the world. 
    The books of  Hasht Bahist (The eight heavens) were written in the Persian language and which were later translated in Urdu language. These Shaykhs include Khwaja Usman Harooni, Khwaja Ajmeri, Khwaja Bakhtiar Kaki, Khwaja Farid, Khwaja Nizamuddin, and Khwaja Naseeruddin Chiragh Dehlavi.

 The names of eight  books  which are available in the Urdu language.

1. Anis  al-Arwah
2.Dalil Arifin
3. Fawid al-Salikin
4. Rahat al-Qulub
5. Israr al-Auliya
6. Fawid al-Fawad
7. Rahatal-Muhibin
8. Rahatal-Ashiqin
    
   The above books  are available for the sale in the following cities of India and Pakistan.

1. Ajmare 2. Delhi.3. Lahore. 4. Hyderabad.

    Out of the above eight books the following six books have been translated first time by me  from Urdu into English and added in this book. 

1. Anis  al-Arifin
2.Dalil Arifin
3. Fawid al-Salikin
4. Rahat  al-Qulub
5. Rahatal al-Ashiqin
6. Astral Auliya

     For the public  reading the above books have been posted and which are available in the below International libraries on the internet  which are shown as follows.

www.scribed.com
www.calmeo.com

   Kindly visit the above websites and read  the rare books of Sufi masters and these are  some small and other  books are too much longer and  all these eight books have been covered on 665 pages and collected in one book and also available some of the above books separately in which there are advises and instructions, especially  available for  Taleb (student) and it refers to a person who is committed to a  Murshid (spiritual master) in a Tariqa (spiritual path) of Sufism  and it is also known as a Salik (Arabic: سَالِك‎),  a  mureed is an initiate into the mystic philosophy of Sufism and all these details of advices by the spiritual masters are added in these  books  And also in these books there are some great achievements which are not yet known to the general person are published in a very interesting style so for this reason the readers will find great interest and attention in this matter. 
       Please note the Urdu version of  Hasht Bahist ( The eight heavens) is also posted by me on the above International web sites for  the kind perusal of the readers as well research persons in this matter.
     It is very strange case that these pioneer books of mystic knowledge in which there is an available treasure of the advices of the Khajagan (masters) of Chistia Sufi order are not available on the internet world so for this reason  the general public is still un-aware of these classic books of world famous except the special persons of the mystic way and other Mashaiq (learned) persons who know well the importance of these rare books of Sufi masters.
       From the above facts and details, if the readers will starts reading these magazine’s first page and will not stop its reading till they will reach its last page as in these magazines, some interesting events and as well as other great miracles and endeavours of holy saints are added  and these holy saints  have passed away from the world  some 1,000 years  ago. 
       Even though these are small books, but due to its importance it  is so great due to coverage of many interesting events and positive information in them  so these  books are like an oceans of knowledge and information of holy saints and who have passed  away from the world upon doing  their great endeavours and  many hard tasks for the preaching and propagation work of Islam in  the foreign lands  so these books are some  small and some lengthy  but  these books  will present the ocean of knowledge and information for the guidance of  the people towards  the right path of Islam. 
     These books are edited  and formatted as per the great book  ‘Muslim saints and Mystics’ (Tadhkirtal Aliyah by Farid al din Attar) which is very famous in the Western world  among the English knowing persons. So for this reason there will be some small differences in it while comparing with the  Urdu books and its literature.  
    The aim of these magazines is to present  in the Western world  where there is great search and demand of the books of Sufism  and biographies of holy saints who lived and spent their entire lives for the preaching and propagation of Islamic religion in all corners of the world as per tradition and practice of Allah’s last prophet.
    To write about these great Sufi masters is not only it is difficult and but it is very hard task as they were  not only a great pious personality of their times in the Indian subcontinent, but  they were great preachers of Islam in the foreign lands and who migrated to the Indian subcontinent from the foreign lands.
Translated by
Mohammed Abdul Hafeez, B.Com.
Translator ‘ Muslim Saints and Mystics’
(The Tadhkirah al-Awliya of Farid al-din Attar)
&  Amazon   author
hafeezanwar@yahoo.com

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