A Mystic’s Advice: Spiritual Guidelines by Āyatullāh Bahjat

A Mystic’s Advice: Spiritual Guidelines by Āyatullāh Bahjat is a distilled window into the inner life, teachings, and spiritual method of one of the greatest contemporary Shīʿī mystics and jurists. Compiled from the preserved words, letters, lectures, and daily practices of Āyatullāh Muḥammad Taqī Bahjat, the work serves as a guide for seekers wishing to journey toward God through the Qurʾān and the teachings of Ahl al-Bayt (ʿa). Though concise, it was intentionally crafted as a teacher manifesting in these pages for anyone striving for nearness to God, containing essential principles that spare the true and earnest seeker the need for another book.

The book opens with a brief biography—his blessed childhood, studies in Karbalāʾ and Najaf, his spiritual training under Sayyid Qāḍī, and his emergence as a model of piety whose humility veiled extraordinary spiritual states and miracles. It outlines the foundations of his mystical school, emphasizing necessary obligations, purified intention, simplicity in living, vigilance, and the exclusive use of spiritual exercises grounded in the Sharīʿah—such as night prayer, monthly fasting, and visitation of the Imāms’ shrines.  It also highlights his belief that true wayfaring requires no hidden system beyond the certainties already known to every believer and that one’s “master” may be the very knowledge God has already made clear.  

A Mystic’s Advice includes his letters, ethical counsels, practical solutions to spiritual problems, and nearly forty concise maxims. His guidance stresses acting on what one knows, keeping the company of those who remind one of God, avoiding pretension, and calling others to God through deeds rather than words.  The result is a work that joins biography, method, and lived wisdom into a reliable path of clarity, sincerity, and God-centered discipline in an age marked by distraction and counterfeit spirituality.

Specifications:

~442 pages

Color Pages

6x9 in

Hardcover with Dust Jacket