A central pillar of the book is the belief that each name of Allah carries specific spiritual and material powers that can be accessed through contemplation or repetitive chanting ( dhikr ).
Key topics covered in the book include:
Al-Buni lived during a time when the boundaries between science, mathematics, and spirituality were fluid. To him, the universe operated on hidden, divine laws that could be decoded through the study of numbers and letters.
This spiritual danger has spawned modern urban legends. One popular tale tells of a Saudi man who read the book and ended up marrying a female jinn, who then proceeded to murder his human family. Book vendors in the Middle East command high prices for it (sometimes 50 to 100 Jordanian dinars, or €65-130), drawing a direct line between its legendary power and its financial value.
Implement a robust search function that allows users to find specific sections, keywords, or concepts within the text or across multiple related texts.
One of the most comprehensive digital offerings comes in the form of a 1.6 GB PDF library containing 28 files, which includes 22 Arabic manuscripts alongside their translations. This digital availability is a relatively new phenomenon. For most of its history, the "Shams al-Ma'arif" was a rare, hard-to-obtain manuscript, with knowledge of its contents being closely guarded. Now, with a few clicks, anyone can access it, making its profound and dangerous ideas more accessible than ever before.
If you have obtained a copy of Shams al-Ma'arif al-Kubra.pdf :
