{"product_id":"risalah-asaad-riaz-9798232170882","title":"Risalah: The Discipline of Love and Longing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRISALAH: The Discipline of Love and Longing\u003c\/strong\u003e is not a manual for escape, but a map for those who burn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRisalah is a meditation at the frontier where philosophy becomes devotion and devotion knowledge. It begins not with theory but with ache: What is the nature of love that annihilates the self yet preserves distinction? It asks the oldest of questions and answers not through abstraction, but through fire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthored by Asaad N. Riaz, a \u003cem\u003efakeer\u003c\/em\u003e who writes from the ash of his own endurance, this treatise unfolds as a mirror for the soul already walking the path. Composed in Madinah, at the threshold of the Prophet's ﷺ Rawdah, it is not theology but unveiling; not speculation but remembrance. Each reflection reconciles intellect and love as twin movements of the same Light. It is for the seeker who feels the fire of \u003cem\u003eIshq\u003c\/em\u003e (Love) yet searches for \u003cem\u003eMizan\u003c\/em\u003e (Proportion) within that fire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book rests on one principle: The Prophet (ﷺ) is the \"geometry of reflection,\" the only mirror in which Divine Light is seen without distortion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, fana (annihilation) is not negation but purification-the clearing of distortion until only the Beloved's pattern remains. The self is not destroyed but sanctified. In the Prophetic path, love reaches perfection as servanthood: the highest station is not the lover but the slave. \"Glory be to Him who took His slave by night.\" In that verse lies the secret of ascension-nearness belongs to surrender.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing upon Ghazali, Iqbal, Attar, Rumi, and Hallaj, it weaves reason and revelation into one rhythm, until obedience becomes intimacy and the self, made transparent, becomes a perfect reflection of the Light. The intellect, when disciplined by love, becomes luminous; love, when guided by law, becomes eternal. Between them lies the \u003cem\u003eSirat\u003c\/em\u003e-the middle path where thought bows without losing clarity, and love burns without consuming proportion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt speaks of \u003cem\u003eWahdat al-Wujud\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWahdat al-Shuhud\u003c\/em\u003e-of the cosmos as infinite expressions within the unity of One. Multiplicity, it shows, is not a fracture of \u003cem\u003etawhid\u003c\/em\u003e but its radiance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis work is not for the curious but for the called: for those who have tasted nearness and awoken to its withdrawal, for whom prayer has become endurance. It teaches that the dryness of faith is not absence but refinement: when worship persists without reward, and love stands free of transaction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt charts the path from longing to alignment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTHE FIRE AND THE FRAME: \u003c\/strong\u003eWhy Divine Law (\u003cem\u003eShari'ah\u003c\/em\u003e) is not a cage for love but the frame of reality-the sacred physics that converts the heat of ecstasy into the coherence of light.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFROM LOVE TO SERVANTHOOD: \u003c\/strong\u003e The journey from \u003cem\u003efana\u003c\/em\u003e (annihilation) to \u003cem\u003ebaqa\u003c\/em\u003e (subsistence). It argues that the highest station is not \"lover\" but abd (slave), for proximity is granted to surrender.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTHE SOBER AND THE ECSTATIC: \u003c\/strong\u003e The narrow path between the safety of Junayd and the perilous unveiling of Hallaj, both contained within the balanced model of the Prophet (ﷺ).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTHE VALLEY OF DRYNESS: \u003c\/strong\u003e When sweetness departs and prayer becomes endurance-this is not absence but purification, the polishing of the mirror that reflects the Real.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTHE FINAL PERIL: \u003c\/strong\u003e Beware the subtle pride that mistakes borrowed light for its own.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt its core it is both confession and invocation: a philosopher's logic tempered by a lover's flame. It invites the reader to walk the razor's edge of proportion-to unite \u003cem\u003eaql\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eishq\u003c\/em\u003e, reflection and remembrance, \u003cem\u003eshari'ah\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ehaqiqah\u003c\/em\u003e. For every atom remembers, every law is mercy, and every path, if rightly walked, ends at the feet of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ-the still point where all multiplicity returns to Light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Asaad Riaz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798232170882\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sophia Intuitive Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/09\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.31d","brand":"Asaad Riaz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49170819514623,"sku":"9798232170882","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/risalah-asaad-riaz-9798232170882","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}