The Search for Truth - 9781891785436

The author of The Search for Truth, the late Hazrat Azad Rasool (may his inner heart be sanctified) who passed from this earth in 2006, was the thirty-third link in the initiatic chain going back to the Prophet (S) via Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (d.634 Mecca), Baha'uddin Naqushband (d. 1389 Bukhara), Ahmad Sirhindi (d. 1624 Sirhind), and Adam Banuri (d. 1644 Medina), Ahmad Sirhindi's most spiritually advanced successor.

The Search for Truth is a valuable contribution to the literature on Sufism, providing an engaging account of the life of a contemporary Naqshbandi master from South Asia. This comprehensive presentation of Islamic Sufi teachings and spiritual practices includes fascinating examples of the adaptation of Sufism to the modern context. This is to be highly recommended for students of mysticism.---Dr. Carl Ernst, William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

This is an eloquent and thoughtful book with many surprises, especially for scholars unfamiliar with the creative connections made in the Indian Sufi context among Islam, western philosophical discourse, and distinctive categories drawn from the indigenous experience of pluralistic life in South Asia. Of particular interest to historians of religion is the treatment of biblical characters and narratives in a hierarchy of concepts blending Sufism and specifically Indian concepts of self, community, and deity. The characters are larger than life, the story is spell-binding, and the presentation is almost gnostic in its careful layering of the stages and spheres of understanding.---Dr. Brannon Wheeler, Director, Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies at the U.S. Naval Academy

This book is about those who have aspired to and have experienced God's Oneness, diligently cultivating a unitary consciousness. The Search for Truth goes on to explain the verified methods available to experience God that have been followed by Naqushbandi-Mujaddidi sufis. In between the written lines the reader is called to our common human birthright - the human experience of consciously experiencing the vastness of the Largest Context, the goal of all spiritual quests.---From the Foreword by Dr. Arthur F. Buehler, author of Sufi Heirs of the Prophet