Nizam Ad-Din Awliya: Morals for the Heart (Classics of Western Spirituality)

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Summary: Chicken Soup for the Spiritually Hungry
Review: Althought the layout takes getting used to, by the 4th or 5th page one can get thoroughly absorbed in the text and the words of wisdom.

Nizamuddin Awliya was a great Muslim Saint of the Chishti spiritual order during the Moghul-Indian era. He was a spiritual inheritor of Baba Fariduddin Ganj Shakr and of Khwaja Muinuddin Chisti of Ajmer. Among his famous disciples was Amir Khusroe, the famous sufi poet.

While this is a collection of his sayings to his students and people of the era, much of the advice is timeless.

Bruce lawrence has made a good effort in keeping the mood of the text and this is a book not only for those interested in Sufism, but as a book of inspiration and comfort .