The Sufi Science of Self-Realization

A guide to the seventeen ruinous traits, the ten steps to discipleship and the six realities of the heart Author: Shaykh Hisham Kabbani Foreword: Mawlana Shaykh Nazim Adil al-Haqqani  Author Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, a master of the Naqshbandi Sufi Path, has composed a treatise on the geography of the soul, beginning with the seventeen destructive traits of the ego and ending with the six latent, marvelous powers of the heart. This book, aimed at those unfamiliar with Sufi terminology, provides an invaluable window into the living, ancient discourses of mystical Islam, wherein spiritual interpretations of Quranic scripture, hadith, and traditional sciences such as numerology are all incorporated into a map of the soul's potential states, stations and pitfalls on its journey back to God's Divine Presence. Shaykh Kabbani introduces knowledge of self as the most powerful and complex realm of understanding: "The foundations of modern science now rest upon an understanding of the inte