A stellar commentary on the text from renowned Sufi Master al-Sakandari (d.1309 CE). Jackson shows how al-Sakandari tried to circumvent the controversies and misunderstandings of Sufism to explain Islam's tradition of devotional rectitude, spiritual refinement and striving to purify the self. Jackson simultaneously thus demonstrates that rigid, lax or wanton readings of Islam are more of a result of the state of spiritual health of those that read and deploy them as they are of the substance of the Qur'an, Sunna or Hadith.
Written in the classical style of spiritual aphorisms, this work is a treasure-trove of classical Islamic spiritual wisdom.