Turning Toward the Heart Awakening to the Sufi Way Forty Questions and Answers Shaykh Azad Rasool (r.a.)

This work treats the reader or seeker to a firsthand, intimate experience of the master-disciple relationship in the Islamic mystical tradition: Sufism.

Following a scholarly introduction, which describes the five great Sufi orders and their lineages of renowned saints and masters (of which Hazrat Rasool is himself a product) the contemporary master answers oft asked and important questions covering such topics as:

• the transformational changes Sufism may bring about in a serious seeker,
• the nature of the individual who has achieved the goal,
• the role of the guide or master,
• the “centers of consciousness”,
• the transmission of the methodology and meditation,
• what it means for the heart to be “awakened” or enlightened,
• and the kind of realization experienced by students of Sufism