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In her book My Years With The
Qutb: A Walk In Paradise,
poet and novelist Sharon Marcus describes her meeting and years with
the great Sufi sage and saint M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen as the miraculous intersection of
the human and the divine. This book is for all those who have wondered what it is like
to sit with a sanctified master of wisdom, absorbing his love, his grace and the
transformational teachings which illuminate the path to God.
Transcending religion, philosophy or
doctrine, the mystical Sufi path lies open to every soul longing for God. This walk
in paradise gives a narrative account of the years Sharon Marcus
spent as a disciple and student of the Sri Lankan master who spent most of the 1970s
and 80s at his American home and headquarters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where
he lived until he left his physical form behind at the end of 1986. In part
personal, experiential, and in part technical, the book conveys the teachings and
practices of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen whom she met in Toronto back in 1975, the teacher who
remains the revelatory pole of her inner and outer existence to this day.
The book is divided into twelve chapters, the
anecdotal alternating with a description of precepts and spiritual techniques. Two
chapters deal with instruction in the dhikr, both the silent remembrance of
God associated with the in-breath and the out-breath, as well as the sung recitation
of the names of God. Other chapters record personal events, conversations, Bawa
Muhaiyaddeen’s discourses, books, his work and reflections. What we are given
is an intensely personal version of what it is like, a vision of life sitting at the
feet of an extraordinary mystic, a saint, studying and learning from the purity and
wisdom he emanated.
THE SUFI PRESS
ISBN13: 9780973753400
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