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The Enclosed Garden of the Truth by Sanai

THE ENCLOSED GARDEN OF THE TRUTH BY SANAI

• Preface.
• Abbreviations.
• Introduction.
  • Life of the Author.
  • Manuscripts and Lithographs.
  • History of the Text.
  • The Commentators.
  • The Hadlqatu’l-haqrqat.
  • SanaTs Preface.
• The First Book of the Hadrqatu’-l-Haqrqat of Sana’i.
• ON THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD.
• ON THE ASSERTION OF THE UNITY.
• ON GOD AS FIRST CAUSE.
• ON PURITY OF HEART.
• ON THE BLIND MEN AND THE AFFAIR OF THE ELEPHANT.
• ON THE ABOVE ALLEGORY.
• OF THOSE WHO HEED NOT.
• ON THE STEPS OF ASCENT.
• ON THE PROTECTION AND GUARDIANSHIP OF GOD.
• THE PARABLE OF THOSE WHO GIVE ALMS.
• ON THE CAUSE OF OUR MAINTENANCE.
• OF THE RIGHT GUIDANCE
• ON THE SURRENDER OF THE SELF.
• IN HIS MAGNIFICATION.
• ON THE EARNEST STRIVING.
• OF THE TRAVELLER ON THE PATH.
• ON BEING SILENT.
• THE PARABLE OF THOSE WHO HEED NOT.
• THE PARABLE OF THE EYE OF THE SQUINT-EYED.
• AGAIN THE PARABLE OF THOSE WHO HEED NOT.
• IN PRAISE OF HIS OMNIPOTENCE.
• ON THE PROVERBS AND ADMONITIONS ‘POVERTY IS BLACKNESS OF THE FACE’
• (THE RECITAL OF PROVERBS IS THE BEST OF DISCOURSES) AND ‘THE WORLD IS A
• HOUSE OF DEPARTURE AND CHANGING AFFAIRS AND MIGRATION.’
• ON THE NEED OF GOD, AND INDEPENDENCE OF ALL BESIDE HIM.
• ON SELF-ABASEMENT AND HUMILITY.
• ON THE JUSTICE OF THE PRINCE AND THE SECURITY OF HIS SUBJECTS.
• ON CELEBRATING THE PRAISE OF GOD.
• CONCERNING THE PIOUS DISCIPLE AND THE GREAT MASTER.
• CONCERNING THE HOUSE OF DECEPTION.
• ON GIVING THANKS.
• ON HIS WRATH AND HIS KINDNESS.
• ON HIS, OMNISCIENCE, AND HIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE MINDS OF MEN.
• CONCERNING HIS BENEFICENCE, -AND VERILY HE IS THE PROVIDER OF
• PROVISIONS.