Moments of Eternity

In the Presence of the Shaykh
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-9963-4-0148-2
Verlag: HIC SALTA PRESS

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 219 mm, Gewicht: 210 g

In this collection of special stories, “Doctor Salim” recounts his own experiences and encounters with a saint who was and still is highly respected as the “Pole” of our age.
It was in London’s Peckham Mosque that he allowed us to partake of a month of extraordinary Tarawîh prayers during Ramadan, on the Swiss Schweibenalp, in his house in Northern Cyprus or in remote areas, such as the deep Black Forest where he honoured us by his visit several times.
In recent years, more and more young people have been coming to the Shaykh, who have hardly been able to get to know him properly due to his advanced age. The stories recounted here are in particular intended to give them unexpected insights into Shaykh Efendi’s vitality, while reminding older students of their own encounters: each of them like the flash of a precious jewel, in which the Lord of the Worlds through our Shaykh allows us to taste something of His Divine Beauty and Love. (from the Publisher’s preface)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spohr, Salim

Über Autor(innen)

Spohr, Salim
Salim Erich Spohr, born in 1947, studied psychology at the University of Cologne, then philosophy in Bonn, Tübingen and again in Bonn, followed by a master’s degree with a thesis on the problem of the thing-in-itself according to Kant; received a teaching position at the Philosophical Seminar of the University of Cologne and held seminars on Heidegger, Kant, Plato, Descartes and Wittgenstein. A scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation enabled him to research the problem of certainty and to get to know the remarkable way in which this basic problem of occidental epistemology is viewed in Islamic culture (yaqîn/tawakkul). At the age of forty, he declared his faith in Islam, through his teacher, Shaykh Muhammad Nâzim ‘Âdil al-Haqqânî ?, who until his death had been his master for 26 years. - Reporter on cultural affairs; publisher (Spohr Publishers LTD, HIC SALTA PRESS).