DescriptionThis manuscript is a preaching treatise (Risālat waʿẓiyya) focusing on the spiritual significance of prayer, the virtues of al-Faqr (poverty), and the discipline of al-Jūʿ (hunger). The text exhorts the reader to recognize prayer as the central act of devotion connecting the believer to the Divine. It further presents voluntary poverty not as economic deprivation, but as freedom from worldly attachment and cultivation of trust in God alone. The discipline of hunger is described as a means of subduing bodily desires, sharpening spiritual awareness, and attaining proximity to the Divine. For researchers, this work represents a distinctive genre of Sufi ethical literature that uses ascetic practices—prayer, poverty, and hunger—as interconnected spiritual disciplines for purifying the soul and redirecting attention toward the afterlife.
Extentff. 170r-172r
PlaceIslahul Uloom Arabic College, Kerala, India
CitationUnknown, Aḥmad bin ʻAlī, MAC58/CM5, ix, https://ari.nus.edu.sg/arabia-asia-archives/mac58-cm5-ix/
