The Seven Days of the Heart: Prayers for the Nights and Days of the Week

I use this book everyday. The prayers are so beautiful. Thank you for translating this masterpiece.

Amazing work From Arabi and efficiently translated. Highly recommended.

Yes it would be nice if the Arabic text was transliterated but it's even harder to find good translations of these gems. So really appreciated this book - a real find and one I will refer to time and time again no doubt.

The most illuminating collection of prayers, beautifully translated with excellent notes to aid understanding of the tradition of Ibn Arabi and his metaphysics

Magnificent

I'll be honest. This translation can sometimes be hard to penetrate but despite this, it is a hugely laudable effort. Ibn Arabi is one of the most esteemed figures in Sufism and considered one of the Great Masters of Islamic mysticism. The prayers are uplifting and revelatory and if repeated in the cycle presented, they really do purify and protect the heart, directing it to its Higher Purpose. I used to read the prayers regularly and then lapsed. Just two days of re-starting the cycle has an immediate impact. But note, focus on the prayer when reading it, don't let yourself be distracted. If you immerse yourself in it, its power washes over you.

This translation is a collaboration of great concentration that charges the heart of the reader and thus relieves the dilutive forces of existence.

This book has brought enormous pleasure - more than that, it has been a revelation. Beneito and Hirtenstein's intelligent renderings and commentaries have opened up new dimensions to what had hitherto been seen primarily as a devotional practice.There is no doubt that this book, which gives a clear English translation plus well-researched footnotes and introduction/appendices which connect the text to the whole corpus of Ibn 'Arabi's work - and beyond, to its Quranic source - provides new opportunities to imbibe full benefit from these extraordinary invocations.These prayers are examples of what Henri Corbin called "theophanic prayer", in which he says "this being, which is one in essence, is 'personalised' into two modes of existence, corresponding to its hidden being and to its revealed being."These are prayers unlike anything found in the Christian tradition, which tends to see prayer as a devotional and emotional activity, and even in Islamic culture, where there was a tradition of metaphysical prayers, they stand out. This is not only because of their form, which combines beauty of expression with heart-felt sentiment and a high degree of intellectual insight, but because of their persepctive, which is certainly Akbarian. This is wahdat al-wujud in practice.