Sacred Sufi Wisdom
1st Ever English Translation
DIWANI HIKMET
Divine Wisdom
First ever English Translation
This first ever translation in English gives us all an opportunity to connect and sharethe insights, journey and invaluable teachings of Sufi saint Hoja Ahmed Yassawi - which can help each of us on the path of a journey truly worth taking. The Journey to Know The Self.
The Divine Wisdom Diwani Hikmet
is the surviving collection of sacred verse and writings by 11th century Sufi mystic Hoja Ahmed Yassawi.
Yassawi wrote his Hikmet, determined at age 63 to "die to live". This entailed disappearing from the world into an underground cell (hilvet), where he remained for the next sixty two years of mortal life.
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Translation How it came about
As Hoja Ahmed Yassawi laid his quill down, he knew this was the time. His final Hikmet penned, a last thought laid before all seekers and followers that would come to read his work. He also recognised this was not his work - it was the outpouring from Subhan. A deeply grateful smile lit his face and the cell around him, that had been his earthly abode for nigh on sixty three years....... read more
Yassawi presented around the world
This groundbreaking first ever English translation of Hoja Ahmed Yassawi's seminal sacred verses has been welcomed and praised in both his homeland, Kazakhstan and other important centres of the Turkic people... read more
