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الْمَحْوِي
The effaced — that only He may remain.
Three epistles, written in a single night
el-Mahvî is not a name but a state: to be effaced.
These three works were written in one night — from knowing to weeping, and from weeping to acquaintance with the Beloved ﷺ.
The one who writes longs to stand aside; for «the finest epistle is written with a teardrop», and the work belongs to its Author.
Three Epistles
ثَلَاثُ رَسَائِلَ فِي طَرِيقِ الْقَلْبِ
All three together — with a shared cover and contents, twenty-five pages in a single volume. Head, heart, and the meeting (liqā).
Later Works
مُنَاجَاةُ النَّشْأَةِ
«From the darkness of nonexistence to the light of existence»
A hymn of praise on our creation from nothing, and our shaping from a drop into a human being.
مُنَاجَاةُ الذِّكْرِ بَعْدَ النِّسْيَانِ
«The disease of heedlessness and the cure of praise»
To the Lord who remembers us when we forget: that blessing and power carry us to praise, not heedlessness.
مُنَاجَاةُ الصَّلَاةِ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ
«The door of mercy and the secret of following»
Blessings upon the Prophet ﷺ: that love be a deed not a claim, and following a covenant in the heart.
رِسَالَةُ الْأَمَانَةِ
«Whoever betrays the door is not trusted with the house»
A man is revealed not by his titles, but by what he does at the door — when the trust is in his hands.
مُنَاجَاةُ الْحَمْدِ
«After the blessing was unveiled»
Seeing the hand behind the causes: protection in withholding, mercy in unveiling, wisdom in the boundary — and gratitude, the door to the increase of blessing.