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tasawwuf: Sufism

Note:  Tasawwuf, Tazkîyah al Nafs, Tasfîyyah al Qalb, Irfân, Sufism, Islâmic Mysticism, Esoteric or Inner Dimension of Islâm, Purification of the Heart/Self/Soul and more recently Islâmic or Sufic Psychology are used inter-changeably.

Tasawwuf is an acronym made up of the four consonant letters: t, s, w, and f.
t stands for tawbah, repentance
s stands for safa, purity, peace and joy
w stands for wilayah, the sanctity of the lovers and friends of Allah
f stands for fana, the annihilation of self into the nothingness.

from 'The Secret of Secrets' by Hadhrat Abdul Qadir Jilani (raa)
translated by Sheikh Tosun Bayrak al Jerrahi al Halveti

Adab: Courtesy of the Path  Kabir Helminski   

Action and Thought  Fethullah Gülen

Alchemy of the Heart  Shaykh Muhammad Maulud 

Alienation & Faith  Kabir Helminski

Arrogance and Humility  Sheikh Tosun Bayrak al Jerrahi    

Asma al Husna 

Awakening  Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah

Contemplation: Murâqabah  Shaykh Muhammad ibn Salih al-`Uthaymeen 'Sharh Riyaadh as-Saaliheen 

Contemplating the Asma al Husna  Sherif Baba Effendi
Cultivation of Spiritual Life   Dr. Muhammad Hamidullah 

Death  Sheikh Tosun Bayrak al Jerrahi   

Dhikr  Sheikh Tosun Bayrak al Jerrahi   

Early Scholars on Sufism  Shaykh of Sabri Chishtiyya Silsila

Faqr o Ghina  (Poverty & Richness)  Fethullah Gülen

Fighting the Enemy Within  Shaykh Taner Ansari

Four Stages of Tazkiyyah  Syed Mumtaz Ali
Good and Evil  Amin Ahsan Islahi  
Good and Evil, The Concept of  Muhammad Rafi Mufti 
Glossary 
Human Soul  Shaykh Tosun Bayrak
In The World But Not Of It   A .H. Almaas
Inspirations: On the Path of Blame   Shaikh Badruddin of Simawna
Islâm & The Divine Feminine  peNkaLai kâtalikkirên
Laylat al Qadr  Shaykh Adil Nazim al Haqqani   
Loh e Mafooz (Preserved Scripturum)  Khawaja Shams ud Deen Azeemi 

Love: excerpt from 'Love is the Wine'  Sheikh Muzaffer Ozak al Jerrahi

Mahabbâh (Love)  Fethullah Gülen

Malâmiyyah Psycho-Spiritual Therapy  Patrick Laude

Man in the 'Spiral' of Thought  Fethullah Gülen

Man's Place in the Universe   Amin Ahsan Islahi   

Muhâsabah (Self-criticism)  Fethullah Gulen

Muhâsabah (Self-inventory) Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi

Murâqabah (Self-Supervision)  Fethullah Gulen

Murâqabah  Shaikh Khawaja Shams-ud-Deen Azeemi

Murâqabah: The Station of   Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah
Nature and Essence of the Human Soul   Abu Bilal Mustafa al-Kanad   

On Being a Human Being   Sheikh Tosun Bayrak al Jerrahi    

Poverty of the Heart   Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee  

Pride in Poverty Dr. Ahmad Shafaat

Qabd & Bast (Strain and Expansion)  Fethullah Gülen

Qur'ân, Ahâdîth and Scientific Findings on Dhikr    Gul
Ramadhan gift    Sheikh Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi al-Halveti  
Ramadhan 2  Sheikh Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi al-Halveti  
Ramadhan 3  Sheikh Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi al-Halveti 
Ramadhan 4  Sheikh Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi al-Halveti   
Rûmi's View of Evil   Zailan Moris
Secrets of Fasting   Ibn al Árabi  (tr Ayesha Bewley)  
Secret of the Night of Power  Muhammad Zuhri  

Seven Levels of Being   Sheikh Tosun Bayrak al Jerrahi  

Social Aspect of Islâmic Mysticism  Wahiduddin Khan

Spiritual Abuse & the Sufi Tradition  Dr. Anab Whitehouse

68 Blemishes of the Nafs   al Khalveti al Jerrahi   
Spiritual Benefits of Hajj   Abdal Haqq Bewley
Spiritual Dimensions of Calligraphy  K. K. Aziz

Sufic View of Music 

Surrender   Sheikha Nassery Bonnin

Tafakkur: Reflection  Fethullah Gulen

Tazkîyah: It's Aim and Scope  Amin Ahsan Islahi   
The Oneness of Allah and The Oneness of His Community  Shaykh Ahmed Abdur Rashid   
The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahl ul Bayt Sufis:  Laurence Galian
Thinking Like the Universe: How the Sufis Integrate the Egoic and Cosmic Levels of Reality   Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan 
Thirty Nights of Ramadhan  Sheikh Muzaffer Ozak al Jerrahi   
Transforming the 'Self'   Sheikh Ragip (Robert Frager)

True Love  Sheikh Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi al-Halveti   
Universe: The Islâmic Perspective  
Why Our Prayers Are Not Answered  Ibrahim Adham
Will  Sheikh Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi al-Halveti