Suhrawardi & The Philosophy of Illumination 

I just wanted to let you know that I found your channel while doing research on religions for a fantasy novel I'm currently writing. I'm very impressed with your perfect Arabic pronunciation and your calm and soothing voice. Thank you for your hard work and your beautiful channel. I find it educational and inspirational.

I am Persian and this young genius philosopher Sheikh Shahab Sohrevardi is one of my favorite scholars and philosophers. I had the privilege of reading his Persian books and amazed how a person in such a young age (late twenties and early thirties) could have such a wast knowledge and personal experience. I would like to thank you for this video clip and your wonderful introduction to this great man. Well done and good job.

I live in Aleppo where there's the shrine and tomb of Suhrawardi just outside the walls of the old city and always wondered about his life when being in that area. And this is an enlightening video about his life and writings, really insightful, keep up the good work. Although I'm Christian still living in in the Middle East I enjoy all your videos about Islam ,Christianity and all other religions.

Everybody I'm from suhrevardi's hometown, suhrevard is a little village now with amazing Walnut trees I'm always amazed myself how this dude moved out from that village and became such a figure at that time

Your videos never fail to blow my mind. As spiritual aspirants we commit ourselves to one particular path and training. Yet nothing is more inspiring than to learn about an God-realized master from a totally different tradition. This transcendental knowledge we try to attain is beyond word and concept. Where it limited to one spiritual teacher we could doubt its validity. But when I come to your channel I know there can be no doubt.

I like the titles he chose for some his essays written in Persian. They show his creative talents: "The red intellect", " the song of Gabriel's feather", " the call of Simurgh", " on the state of childhood", " the language of ants", " on the reality of love" and "One day among Sufis". Also found his description of ecstasy (Halat) and etymology of the word Love ( Eshgh in persian/arabic) fascinating.

God… this blew my mind. I can’t get over it. The philosophy of illumination is literally everything I learned during my first mushroom trip summarized and explained. All of it. Please read on before you call me names 😂 So during my first mushroom trip, which was so transformative spiritually for me, I had these “realizations”, a knowingness if you will. I was “perceiving” certain truths. That’s as close as I got to describing it in the aftermath (words in any of the 4 languages I speak proved inadequate every time I tried to describe what I experienced). But now listening to this wonderful explanation that I stumbled upon totally by accident (never heard of these concepts before), I believe that what happened to me that day in terms of “perceiving” could perhaps be described as “intuitive knowledge” and the “unveiling” that this philosopher talked about. I can relate to the way it’s described in this way on a profound level. And that’s not even the best part… funny enough, one of the things I “perceived”, was the “order of the universe”. I’m using quotation marks because it’s impossible to describe these experiences and concepts with words, as I said. But what I perceived or grasped was this light that’s talked about here and “God” being at the very top of this, on the top level, so incredibly bright. I could see this with my “mind’s eye” except I couldn’t in that this “Light of Lights” was so bright and so incomprehensible to me, a mere human, that my mind just couldn’t process it. But I “perceived” also that it’s on the “top level”… and then there were all these other levels below it. I perceived 7-ish I’d say, and later someone told me Islam talks about these levels or spheres. And it was a humbling experience in that it made me realize how far, far away we are from this Light of Lights, the Source. The comment about how our human souls are the “dimmest” of these lights describes it perfectly. And what it helped me see is how trivial our existence is in that we get caught up in things that are not even real and yet we remain blind to our true nature, souls getting lost in this material world and our material problems when pure Divine Light and Divine Love is all there is. When we should be trying to get closer to It… our human existence is organized so that we basically do everything to get further away from this Light. And most of us can only hope to “ascend” a little bit… we’ll never truly get anywhere near it. Or idk. All I know is we’re damn far and we have opportunities every day to come closer to It because God is in all things, in all of us. God, Light, Sourcr… call it what you want. I’m not a religious man, though I was raised Catholic. But I am someone who considers himself very spiritual and quite attracted to these “mystical” ideas and philosophers. I’m in awe of the fact someone described what I experienced in circa 2012 centuries ago. There is indeed an intuitive knowledge we all posses, a “universal consciousness” new age folks talk about but that has its origin in the pre-Socratic era (both Plato and Aristotle apparently rejected the idea but I don’t know much of the background). Ive only taken psilocybin once after that, or any psychedelic for that matter. But I think “magic” mushrooms are a wonderful tool of “illumination” and a gateway to truths that are simultaneously intuitive to us yet beyond our comprehension. And all I can add is that I have the most profound respect for men such as this, who were so tuned into the rhythms of the Universe and the true nature of reality that most people such as myself can access only through altered states of consciousness, when the ego is dissolved and we can be free of out “filters” temporarily and see beyond the veil. See things for what they are. I’m so in awe right now I could cry. Neither from joy nor sadness. Just awe. There’s truth in all religions and all traditions. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.

متابعك من العراق One of your fans form Iraq معجبك بقناتك واتمنى لك كل الخير I love your channel, and I wish all good to you

Outstanding❤. Iran was full of gems, what a country!

Thank you for the amazing value you’re adding ❤🙏 you have influenced my PhD studies so much with this unique knowledge I’m an Ismaili Syrian young woman studying in the UK a theology geek I would say Your Chanel is at the top of my favourite RU-vid channels

Truly enlightening. Im not a religious person, but Suhrawardy's school of thought opened my mind to dig about Druze, pantheism, gnosticism and Ismailism. Different religious teachings have much in common, hence it needs to be discussed with compassion rather than fighting each other. May peace be upon us.

I agree with Suhrawardi in how we can only know God. It is a personal relationship outside of religious dogma or beliefs and I believe should be a personal relationship. And all religious and beliefs should be respected. It should not be considered a contest in who is right or wrong. We all will know the truth upon our death. Until then we should be respectful to one another.

Wonderful presentation: lucid and conversational and historically responsible. Many thanks for this

This is going to be a great episode!

You are my favorite youtuber after watching a couple of episodes. You've introduced me to philosophies that I've never even knew existed. Thank you!

Thanks for this one in particular. Fantastic information. I, personally,am a great fan of Rumi,in my opinion he is the greatest poet to come along so far. Sufism leads people into interesting and beautiful places. This is the only channel on RU-vid about religion that has any real integrity. You are not emotionally invested in anything that you cover in your discussions. You simply lay things out and allow the viewers to decide for themselves. Well done. Keep it up. 🔥

With each video I can’t help but be grateful for your hard work, in Aw of the rich Islamic philosophies and deeply, deeply enraged by the indoctrination that has been successful in convincing most muslims that there is only one right way of thinking about faith.not even thinking just practicing without thought. From the bottom of my soul: جزاك الله كل خير 🙏🏻🤍

He was really radical for his time. I am amazed that his knowledge has survived and not burnt as was being done elsewhere in contemporary world.

I have enjoyed your channel for a few months now, and have been patiently waiting for this. Finally indeed. My particular experiences are more "sapiential," as Nasr describes, definitely "intuitive" although I have no problem reading dense academic prose. Corbin has been a pivotal author in my personal studies yet now it feels like I can return to study Suhrawardi through the more discursive work of Walbridge & Ziai's critical edition which I didn't even know existed! Thank you so much!

Very insightful. Suhrawardi is still relevant to modern philosophy.

It's a shame, nay, a _crime,_ that such wisdom is not commonly taught in our schools. We seem determined to remain as ignorant and closed-minded as possible.

What you do on your channel ist magnificent ✨🙌🏻 and extraordinarily unique 🌈

Fascinating character, loved your presentation of this great philosopher. Thank you!

According to a very recent scientific research and findings light can create matter. Great video and explanation.

As an Iranian I really appreciate your efforts for making this amazing video!

Members of my family in Bangladesh had been influenced by Suhrawardi (Rahmatullahi)’s philosophy as I remember them discussing the subject in the 1950s. Very illuminating indeed. Regards.

I was already in the mindset that every religion is pointing everyone to the same universal truths of God and no matter which one you choose it will be correct. Then I started watching your videos and it's just re enforced my mono myth theory. We are always so busy fighting and even killing each other the differences of our religions that we never stop to look at the similarities

I'm glad that I'm getting this knowledge from RU-vid and not from Netflix.

Thank you for your insightful n well researched subjects. I was raised in Persia, n of course, we learned about many Persian philosophers in school. I had heard about Tanasokh, or Reinkarnation. I understood humans lived many lives, to grow personally n spiritually to the degree of purity, that didn't need to come back, as they were pure enough to join the Creator again, as we all come from The Light n finally go back to light, after having experienced n learned many lessons to be pure again. Much later, I had my own Eshragh, when I died n after lots of communication with the Source/God had rebirth. The Light Sohravardi, talked about can be known to n lived by those who really die n become one with the Light, n come back to teach it. But it is neither easy, nor possible to teach n talk about the truth - it does not fit in words. As Rumi n Hallaj experienced, it is Union with God, unique to those who live it.... not even NDE ppl necessarily experience this level of dying, not existing, melting n dissolving in The Light. Many don't dare to talk about real Eshragh n union with God, because of the reaction of ppl. People, especially, those who think they know it all, or are in power, get scared... n do harm enlightened individuals, in any way they can. Even today, in 21 century!!! Love n Light be with you.

Awesome! Brilliant Sir! Long live Sufism and Philosophy.

It’s always interesting for me to find /hear the teachings/philosophy of the ancient masters and see the sources for so many of modern days gurus that never give credit to the true origins of their works Carlos Castaneda comes to mind here .

Looking forward to the Master of Illumination (Shaikh al-'Ishraq).

Wow! Just blew my mind thank you for sharing this historic information with those of us who may not otherwise have had access to it.

Very carefully and thoroughly researched and presented. Excellent! And Filip(?) is passionate about the subject without displaying any bias. The perfect combination. Thank you for your contribution. Very helpful. Keep it up!

Commenting for the algorithm to get you more subs because the amount of effort you put into your research and unbiased, respectful presentation is phenomenal.

My rather simple example to help with understanding Surawardi's notion of self-knowledge leading to knowledge of reality, is to think of your mind as a torch or some sort of light, which gets partially covered when an object is placed in its field, thereby creating a dark spot in that light field which takes the shape and size of the object itself. Now, depending on the shape and size of the covered area you can determine the size and shape of the object itself, as the object will only cover such an area of light as the object can occupy. This is how you'd know, for example, if the object is square shaped, large, medium, triangular shaped etc. Without that light, you wouldn't be able to detect the object

Your videos are so great. Thank you 😊🙋‍♂️

Thank you so much for bringing this work and others to the forefront. You know that to bring knowledge to light is the most revolutionary and consequential of any action you can take in this world thats why Muhammad SAWS said 'The pen is mightier than the sword'. Thank you for this channel and your work dont ever stop God bless you.

Knowledge can only be obtained thru being self aware of our actions, thought, words.... Then thru meditation we begin to observe patterns within our actions. Further investigation reveals the motivation behind those actions. Great video! Thanx 🙏

Amazing episode! So good I'm going to re-watch.

I can't even express how grateful I am for this video. Thank you for making this!

There are so many persian philosophers and scientists who were vastly acquainted and had affiliated to school of writers and poetic abilities.

Some people have commented on how good this guys Arabic pronounciation is (which is true) but he also deserves credit for his English. I know it might be easier for a Swede to learn English than, for example, a Chinese person, but still getting through the explaination at 19:40 is a pretty impressive feat for a non-native speaker.

This philosophy is a great example of how the thought schools of ancient world were much closer and without conflict to each other. the philosophy of light can be easily mapped to the philosophy of Upanishads that say "सत्येन पन्था विततो देवयानः ।" (the path of light is the reality) or "यदादित्यगतं तेजो जगद्भासयतेऽखिलम् । यच्चंद्मसि यच्चाग्नौ तत्तेजो विद्धि मामकम् ॥" (i am the brilliance of the sun that illumanates our workd, radiance of the moon and brightness of the fire is me). Sages from 5th century till modern times have experienced and explained this in what i would classify as mostly the advaita (nondualistic) schools of philosophy. Good work and keep it up!

Your video started on Auto Play, but I'm very happy it did. The difference between Essence and Existence will be something I'll think about all day thanks to you, and Suhrawardi.

Please start posting your episodes as podcasts on Spotify, it’s free and would make it more accessible:)!

John Walbridge was my Quran professor at Indiana. Small world. Thanks!

Thank you for making this complex concept (somewhat) easier to understand. This has been very illuminating.

Very impressive,may you live Long and continue to educate people,being a student of philosophy I am glade to watch your channel,

This video is interesting thank you My family lineage comes from the Hussaini Jalali Suhrwadiy school as we are Naqvi Al Bukhari A lot of the knowledge is hidden or lost and the knowledge of hussaini jalali is only passed through lineage

Thanks for introducing me to this amazing thinker/mind! I think without your video i would not encountered it.

I recently got into confucianism and its amazing the parallels it has with Christian and Islamic philosophy

I'm Arab and would like to thank you for your great content. Your Arabic pronunciation is accurate and I'm amazed of your solid understanding of the subject. Subscribed!

Outstanding, thank you. His work on consciousness and presence calls to mind the work of Rupert Spira and Peter Russell today. Always important to remind ourselves of the wisdom of our predecessors, how we stand on the shoulders of the great thinkers and teachers that have gone before us. Wonderful video, wonderful channel!

You are light my friend, ever illuminating. Thank you for your authenticity!!

Peace Friends, Rene Guenon's preference to say that "mystical" is a word to best only to apply to Western ways, is a case worth understanding. Mist and mystery gets in the way of light. Similarly, Guenon's preference for the label "Intellectual Intuition" instead of "Intuitive Knowledge" has the advantage of not conflating what Suhrawardi means here with any psychic level phenomena, like Jung and his "collective unconscious". Salaam.

So impressed by your arabic prononciation even more of the meaning of it and understanding it as it should beside the way you explain everything 🙏🏼✨

hey, i regularly watch your videos and i loved your videos a lot. I am from India and English isn't my first laguage. I understand english very well, but i cant understand much of your accent, so can you please add english subtitles in your videos? Please try to add subtitles

I have been lucky enough to learn a lot from your channel. Absolutely excellent explanation and delivery every time. Thank you for this work!

Many streams of enlightenment here resonate with quantum physics as we know it, and even lively theoretical physics that border upon philosophies on the essential. How something is knowable, real, alive, meaningful? The overlap shows where we succeed in our intuitions, which makes them seem probabilistic to me. 👵☀️ Where another analogous situation exists is these esoteric discussions vis a vis cosmology. I'd love to see a panel of all these awarenesses, enlightenments and positions share their understandings or offerings of ideas together.

There is a theory that all fundamental particles are just bound photons rotating twice per wavelength. In which case, everything is quite literally light.

Amazing video, I love all these great thinkers such as Suhrawardi, Mir damad and so on. keep up the great content !

I studies Suhrawardi in our Islamic philosophy, Very interesting ideas .

This is one of my favorite videos, thank you. 🙏

If this is what I am expecting it to be. Then maybe in future I will name my son after him

A fantastic presentation full of quality research, a very coherent discourse and an intense pursuit of the truth! May Allah guide you and all of us to that truth! Indebted to you, thanks.

I’m a Mindfulness trainer and I understood all of the very confusing concept of self and others as “judgement” and “acceptance”. I don’t know if it’s correct, but it rather makes sense. If you are a truly Mindful person (not in the mind the step, but self aware), a huge part of that is acceptance of things as they are in reality - factually, and NON-Judgement. Because judgement is a truly external and societal construct. One person’s right is another’s wrong - same for good/bad, better/worse, pretty/ugly, and anything which is measured - success, skill, prosperity, etc etc it’s all relative, fluid and individual. Only by truly knowing yourself and understanding the concepts that the measurements of the outer world only work if people are exactly the same, can a person look PAST those things and potentially see past the concepts another persons might be trapped in. A bit “don’t judge a book by the cover”, but realising that everyone has been in this hard cover of concepts all their lives and it’s awfully hard to get out of your own cover sometimes much less see in someone else’s. Does that make sense? If it doesn’t, then I haven’t a clue what he’s talking about. zLOL

So excited

Sir your voice is pleasantly melodic consistently in the ever present flow stay awesome

Fascinating, so much similarities with indian philosophies of consciousness as Chit = of SatChitAnanda

Am so grateful for your clear and scholarly presentation.

This speaks to that which has spoken to me and speaks to all, if our frequency tunes in…by not tuning

If he's Persian, how come you pronounce it with Arabic pronunciation? It's like I'm trying to say a Swedish name, but I make efforts to pronounce it with a Finnish accent. I would empathize if you were a native Arab, but... The only reason I bring this up is because, to the broader audience, it gives the impression that the pronunciation is authentic and 'middle eastern sounding', when it's not.

Your pronounciation with arabic and persian names are almost spot on ! Great job

Thanks for delivering the goods ❤️ Reggae is so sincerely devotional, would make a great subject.

you would so absolutely love the Rosicrucian order - they have original esoteric material that goes all the way back to Atlantis, the science and the practice as well -it's an open order.

I grew up studying religion philosophy Joseph Campbell etc. Your channel is beyond outstanding. Thank you.

You are amazing in the way you impart this knowledge - it’s a real feat of intellect

@19:50 : that look and hand wave when you say "get it?" is priceless. No, I don't think I got it, but i think you explained it beautifully so I *began* getting it. which is a lot. thank you, was most enlightening

VERY important..thank you for the great presentation…I remember reading a translation of plato in my 3rd year Arabic class…❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Many thanks for this. Looking forward to it

Salah addin was a wise man.

Thank you once again for your very clear and interesting introduction.

19:00 I felt that as I exactly heard it. I was writing about it and it came back together at this point. That wonderful realizations upon realizations. Syncronicity. Namaste

Very Illuminating, Mo Zi has long been my teacher, but was not the only Master of Light.

Thank you so much for that! It was absolutely fascinating!

I like how there’s already 3 dislikes

as a student of his school, who studied in Isfahan and Qom; I appreciated your video. noteworthy, many of these scholars (and poets, for that matter) were Muslim only on the outside and as a necessity. their true beliefs are hidden between their lines of text and poetry and visible to those who know the true and ancient wisdom of our ancient masters.

This was a fascinating explanation especially because I was not aware of Suhrawardi and The Philosophy of Illumination. After listening to this groundbreaking view I cannot help but compare it to the current dilemma of understanding consciousness as well as Near Death Experiences and Reincarnation. Almost all people who have had an NDE remember seeing and being drawn to a great light. A light that is not only illuminating but possesses the understanding of life and the Universe. They go on to report being embraced by that light and feeling as though they have become "one" with everything and having infinite knowledge. Science and Quantum Physics have begun to question consciousness and from where it originates. They also have spoken about ours conscious minds creating our reality and our experiences. These is quite a comparison between these two very distant beliefs that is eerily similar. Thank you for the video as I will delve more into Suhrawardi and his philosophy.

Well , I have a bit in common with him on a few points of his philosophy. I really like and respect many of these pre Islamic philosophers as well as those who were post Islamic like suhrawardi . Many great minds came from the east in that respect.

I notice a interesting similarity between huduri theory and Husserl's phenomenology, which postulate the consciousness interaction with the experienced object, stepping aside from the platonic representational theory of consciousness.

Salam, Firstly, Abu al-Futuh al-Suhrawardi (أبو الفتوح السهروردي) based one of his concepts on the verse from the Holy Quran: «اللَّهُ نُورُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالأَرْضِ» «Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth.» [24:35] «نُّورٌ عَلَى نُورٍ» «Light upon Light;» [24:35] However, one should bear in mind that Al-Nur (النّور) is only one of the 99 Beautiful Names & Attributes of Allah (ﷻ). Secondly, Allah (ﷻ) creates the word with one word, not through light or “emanation”: «وَهُوَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالأَرْضَ بِالْحَقِّ وَيَوْمَ يَقُولُ كُن فَيَكُونُ قَوْلُهُ الْحَقُّ» «And it is He Who created the heavens and the earth in truth. And on the day when He says: ‘Be,’ and so it is: His saying is the truth;» [6:73] Moreover, the Human soul (النّفس) is NOT made of light; It’s too far-fetched for Suhrawardi to assume so, when this concept is totally denied in the Holy Quran -while the soul is part of the Knowledge of the Unseen (علم الغيّب) which NONE knows it except Allah (ﷻ) - Not even The Prophets or Messengers, peace be upon them, ever claimed to know the Unseen or what the soul is composed of: «وَنَفْسٍ وَمَا سَوَّاهَا • فَأَلْهَمَهَا فُجُورَهَا وَتَقْوَاهَا» «By the soul and how He formed it, then inspired it with its (instincts of) evil and piety» [91:7-8] «لاَ يُكَلِّفُ اللَّهُ نَفْسًا إِلاَّ وُسْعَهَا لَهَا» «Allah does not burden any soul greater than it can bear. All good will be for its own benefit, and all evil will be to its own loss.» [2:286] «فَلا تُزَكُّوا أَنفُسَكُمْ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَنِ اتَّقَى» «So do not claim purity for yourselves, for He knows best who is truly righteous.» [53:32] «اللَّهُ وَلِيُّ الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ يُخْرِجُهُم مِّنَ الظُّلُمَاتِ إِلَى النُّورِ وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ أَوْلِيَاؤُهُمُ الطَّاغُوتُ يُخْرِجُونَهُم مِّنَ النُّورِ إِلَى الظُّلُمَاتِ أُوْلَئِكَ أَصْحَابُ النَّارِ هُمْ فِيهَا خَالِدُونَ» «Allah is the Guardian of the believers-He brings them out of darkness and into light. As for the disbelievers, their guardians are false gods (Tāghūt: i.e. false gods, idols, devils and seducers) who lead them out of light and into darkness. It is they who will be the residents of the Fire. They will be there forever.» [2:257] «أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى الَّذِينَ أُوتُواْ نَصِيبًا مِّنَ الْكِتَابِ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْجِبْتِ وَالطَّاغُوتِ وَيَقُولُونَ لِلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ هَؤُلاء أَهْدَى مِنَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ سَبِيلاً • أُوْلَئِكَ الَّذِينَ لَعَنَهُمُ اللَّهُ وَمَن يَلْعَنِ اللَّهُ فَلَن تَجِدَ لَهُ نَصِيرًا» «Have you not seen those who were given a portion of the Scripture, who believe in Jibt [superstition, sorcery] and Tāghūt [false objects of worship] and say about the disbelievers, "These are better guided than the believers as to the way"? It is they who have been condemned by Allah. And whoever is condemned by Allah will have no helper.» [4:51-52] «قُل لاَّ أَقُولُ لَكُمْ عِندِي خَزَائِنُ اللَّهِ وَلا أَعْلَمُ الْغَيْبَ وَلا أَقُولُ لَكُمْ إِنِّي مَلَكٌ إِنْ أَتَّبِعُ إِلاَّ مَا يُوحَى إِلَيَّ قُلْ هَلْ يَسْتَوِي الأَعْمَى وَالْبَصِيرُ أَفَلاَ تَتَفَكَّرُونَ» «Say, "I do not say to you that with me are the treasures of Allah, nor do I have the knowledge of the Unseen, nor do I say to you that I am an angel. I follow but that which is revealed to me." Say, "Is it that a blind person and a sighted one are equal? Do you, then, not reflect?"» [6:50] «قُل لّا يَعْلَمُ مَن فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالأَرْضِ الْغَيْبَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ وَمَا يَشْعُرُونَ أَيَّانَ يُبْعَثُونَ» «Say, “None in the heavens and the earth has knowledge of the Unseen except Allah. Nor do they know when they will be resurrected.» [27:65] It’s Allah (ﷻ) alone who creates the soul, and Who has inspired it with its wickedness and righteousness; It is only He Who brings it from darkness to light, or the opposite by His Will alone. Therefore, not much of what Abu al-Futuh al-Suhrawardi has said is actually based on the Holy Quran except very little. It’s good to see you’ve made the distinction - which many fall into confused misconception- between Abu al-Futuh al-Suhrawardi (أبو الفتوح السهروردي) from the Sunni Sheikh al-Islām Imam Shihāb al-dīn al-Suhrawardi (شهاب الدين السهروردي), who is the Arab descendant of Caliph Abu Baker al-Sidīq, Sunni Imam followers of Shafi'i, and one of many Sunni Imams of his time who has practiced “Asceticism” (الزُّهْد) and “Tasawwuf” (التَّصَوف) in his worship according to the Shari'a based on the Qur’an and the Sunnah. He established the methodology to affirm the “Aqīdah” of “al-Salaf al-Saleh” (السّلف الصالح), or Creed of the Pious Predecessors and Ahl al-Sunnah, and how to defend them in his book (ٰأعْلام الهُدىٰ وعَقِيدة أربَاب التُّقى). He also wrote the Book al-ʿAwārif wa al-Maʿārif (العَوارِف والمَعارِف) about “Tasawwuf” (التَّصَوف). His books are one of the most influential, specially in regards to Aqīdah (something which sadly I find lacking in your channel), in the Islamic world in many Muslim lives in the Middle East of different Islamic schools of thoughts today.

Filip, you do what you do, so well.❤️

I didn't know you already had a video on this. Infact I requested you to comeup with Suhrawardi mysticism in one of my comments.

Brilliant choose for a brilliant character in Islamic world and history. Many thanks 🙏

I really enjoyed this beautiful content. Keep it up . A note: I am impressed with Ur fluent Arabic

Thanks for the great work. The point on illuminated existence at 22:00 sounds eerily similar to existence by observation by Werner Heisenberg under Quantum Theory.

I love this. I have not studied or read other philosophers, but find this similar to my own simplistic beliefs or more like my feelings to life.

Another wonderful exposition of an important, even unique, thinker who is almost unknown in the West.

fucking amazing video .. i am an iranian and i needed this ..thank you buddy