Rasāʾil al-Ḥikma · Epistles of Wisdom
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Epistles of Wisdom / Rasāʾil al-Ḥikma

The Epistles of Wisdom (Rasāʾil al-Ḥikma; رسائل الحكمة) are an eleventh-century collection central to the Druze faith. Read all 111 epistles in English, search the collection, or download the complete edition.

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All 111 epistles

  1. 001. COPY OF THE DECREE FOUND HANGING AT THE SHRINES DURING THE ABSENCE OF OUR LORD, IMAM AL-ḤĀKIM
  2. 002. THE DECREE PROHIBITING WINE
  3. 003. THE ACCOUNT OF THE JEWS AND CHRISTIANS
  4. 004. COPY OF WHAT THE QARMATIAN WROTE
  5. 005. THE COVENANT OF THE GUARDIAN OF THE AGE
  6. 006. THE BOOK KNOWN AS THE HIDDEN REFUTATION
  7. 007. THE BEGINNING OF TAWḤĪD FOR THE CALL OF TRUTH
  8. 008. THE COVENANT OF THE WOMEN
  9. 009. THE EPISTLE OF COMMUNICATION AND THE ULTIMATE GOAL IN TAWHID
  10. 010. THE ULTIMATE GOAL AND THE ADMONITION
  11. 011. A BOOK CONTAINING THE TRUE MEANINGS OF THE APPARENT JESTING BEFORE OUR LORD
  12. 012. THE STRAIGHT CONDUCT
  13. 013. THE UNVEILING OF REALITIES
  14. 014. THE CAUSE OF CAUSES AND THE TREASURE FOR ONE WHO IS CERTAIN AND RESPONDS
  15. 015. THE CRUSHING REFUTATION OF THE TRANSGRESSOR: REPLY TO THE NUṢAYRĪ
  16. 016. ACCEPTANCE AND SUBMISSION
  17. 017. THE EPISTLE OF TRANSCENDENCE TO THE COMMUNITY OF UNITARIANS
  18. 018. THE GREAT EPISTLE OF THE WOMEN
  19. 019. THE MORNING ASSAULT THAT OCCURRED
  20. 020. THE DECREE OF AL-MUJTABĀ
  21. 021. THE APPOINTMENT OF AL-RAḌĪ
  22. 022. THE APPOINTMENT OF AL-MUQTANĀ
  23. 023. AL-KUDYA AL-BAYḌĀʾ (THE WHITE HEIGHT)
  24. 024. LETTER TO THE UNITARIANS OF ANṢINĀ
  25. 025. THE IMAM'S CONDITIONS
  26. 026. TO ʿABD AL-RAḤĪM SON OF ILYĀS
  27. 027. KHAMMĀR SON OF JAYSH
  28. 028. LETTER TO THE JUDGE
  29. 029. THE SUPPLICATION OF THE GUARDIAN OF TRUTH
  30. 030. THE ANSWERED PRAYER (AL-DUʿĀʾ AL-MUSTAJĀB)
  31. 031. THE SANCTIFICATION (AL-TAQDĪS)
  32. 032. ON KNOWING THE IMAM AND THE NAMES OF THE EXALTED RANKS, SPIRITUALLY AND BODILY
  33. 033. WARNING AND ADMONITION (AL-TAḤDHĪR WA-L-TANBĪH)
  34. 034. THE EPISTLE OF EXCUSE AND WARNING (AL-IʿDHĀR WA-L-INDHĀR)
  35. 035. THE EPISTLE OF THE OCCULTATION (RISĀLAT AL-GHAYBA)
  36. 036. THE DIVISION OF THE SCIENCES, ESTABLISHMENT OF THE TRUTH, AND DISCLOSURE OF WHAT IS HIDDEN
  37. 037. THE EPISTLE OF THE TINDER AND THE CLEAR PATH FOR THE SEEKER OF GUIDANCE
  38. 038. THE EPISTLE OF THE CANDLE
  39. 039. RIGHT GUIDANCE AND DIRECTION
  40. 040. THE POEM OF THE SOUL
  41. 041. THE SEVEN PRECEPTS
  42. 042. ADMONITION AND REPROOF
  43. 043. A PARABLE SET FORTH BY ONE OF THE WISE MEN OF THE RELIGION
  44. 044. EPISTLE TO THE BANŪ ABĪ ḤIMĀR
  45. 045. APPOINTMENT OF LĀḤIQ
  46. 046. APPOINTMENT OF SAKĪN
  47. 047. APPOINTMENT OF THE SHAYKH ABŪ AL-KATĀʾIB
  48. 048. APPOINTMENT OF THE EMIR DHŪ AL-MAḤĀMID
  49. 049. APPOINTMENT OF BANŪ JARRĀḤ
  50. 050. THE JUMHAYRIYYA
  51. 051. ADMONITION AND REPROACH
  52. 052. THE LETTER OF THE VALLEY
  53. 053. CONSTANTINOPLE (AL-QUSṬANṬĪNIYYA)
  54. 054. THE CHRISTIAN EPISTLE (AL-MASĪḤIYYA)
  55. 055. PURSUIT AND EXAMINATION (AL-TAʿAQQUB WA-L-IFTIQĀD)
  56. 056. AWAKENING AND GOOD TIDINGS (AL-ĪQĀẒ WA-L-BISHĀRA)
  57. 057. ON THE REALITIES: WARNING AND DISCIPLINE FOR ALL CREATION (AL-MAWSŪMA BI-L-ḤAQĀʾIQ)
  58. 058. THE HEALING OF THE SOULS OF THE UNITARIANS (AL-SHĀFIYA LI-NUFŪS AL-MUWAḤḤIDĪN)
  59. 059. LETTER TO THE ARABS (RISĀLAT AL-ʿARAB)
  60. 060. LETTER TO YEMEN (RISĀLAT AL-YAMAN)
  61. 061. LETTER TO INDIA: REMEMBRANCE AND COMPLETION FOR THE GUIDED, EXCELLENT SHAYKH (RISĀLAT AL-HIND)
  62. 062. REBUKE AND EXPLANATION: ESTABLISHING THE GUARDIAN OF THE AGE'S PROOF (AL-TAQRĪʿ WA-L-BAYĀN)
  63. 063. INSTRUCTION OF THE DISOBEDIENT SON (TAʾDĪB AL-WALAD AL-ʿĀQQ)
  64. 064. THE CRUSHING REFUTATION OF THE PRETENDED PHARAOH
  65. 065. THE LETTER TO ABŪ AL-YAQẒĀN
  66. 066. DISTINGUISHING THE UNITARIANS FROM THE DISOBEDIENT, WICKED COVENANT-BREAKERS
  67. 067. WITHOUT THE QĀʾIM OF THE AGE, THERE IS NO GUIDE TO OBEDIENCE TO THE MERCIFUL
  68. 068. THE JOURNEY TO THE HONORED MASTERS
  69. 069. THE ASCENT TO THE SALVATION OF THE UNITARIANS AND THE LADDER OF LIFE FOR THOSE WHO HAVE CERTAINTY
  70. 070. ON THE RETURN (AL-MAʿĀD), AND IN REFUTATION OF ONE WHO SPEAKS FALSELY OF IT
  71. 071. CLARIFICATION AND SUPPLEMENT (AL-TABYĪN WA-L-ISTIDRĀK)
  72. 072. THE ISRAELITE EPISTLE, A REFUTATION OF OBSTINACY AND DENIAL
  73. 073. SEVENTY-ONE QUESTIONS
  74. 074. CLARIFICATION OF DIVINE UNITY (ĪḌĀḤ AL-TAWḤĪD)
  75. 075. REFUTATION OF THE PEOPLE OF ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION (AL-RADD ʿALĀ AHL AL-TAʾWĪL)
  76. 076. REBUKE OF IBN AL-BARBARĪYYA (TAWBĪKH IBN AL-BARBARĪYYA)
  77. 077. REBUKE OF LĀḤIQ (TAWBĪKH LĀḤIQ)
  78. 078. REBUKE OF SAKĪN (TAWBĪKH SAKĪN)
  79. 079. REBUKE OF IBN ABĪ ḤAṢIYYA (TAWBĪKH IBN ABĪ ḤAṢIYYA)
  80. 080. REBUKE OF SAHL (TAWBĪKH SAHL)
  81. 081. REBUKE OF ḤASAN IBN MUʿALLĀ (TAWBĪKH ḤASAN IBN MUʿALLĀ)
  82. 082. REBUKE OF THE UNFORTUNATE MUKHALLĀ (TAWBĪKH AL-KHĀʾIB MUKHALLĀ)
  83. 083. THE ELDER DAUGHTERS (AL-BANĀT AL-KABĪRA)
  84. 084. THE YOUNGER DAUGHTERS (RISĀLAT AL-BANĀT AL-ṢAGHĪRA)
  85. 085. TREATISE IN REFUTATION OF THE ASTROLOGERS (AL-MAQĀLA FĪ AL-RADD ʿALĀ AL-MUNAJJIMĪN)
  86. 086. THE BEGINNING OF CREATION (RISĀLA MAWSŪMA BI-BADʾ AL-KHALQ)
  87. 087. THE EPISTLE CALLED THE ADMONITION (AL-MAWSŪMA BI-L-MAWʿIẒA)
  88. 088. THE ADDRESS / PETITION (AL-MUWĀJAHA)
  89. 089. LETTER TO SHAYKH ABŪ AL-KATĀʾIB
  90. 090. CIRCULAR TO THE HOUSE OF ʿABD ALLĀH
  91. 091. REPLY TO THE LETTER OF THE NOBLE LORDS
  92. 092. THE LETTER SENT BY THE HAND OF SARĀYĀ
  93. 093. A LETTER OF REMINDER
  94. 094. LETTER TO NAṢR IBN FUTŪḤ
  95. 095. THE DECREE SENT TO NAṢR
  96. 096. PROCLAMATION TO SHAYKH ABŪ AL-MAʿĀLĪ AL-ṬĀHIR
  97. 097. PROCLAMATION TO THE COMMUNITY OF THE HOUSE OF ABŪ TURĀB
  98. 098. LETTER TO JABAL AL-SUMMĀQ
  99. 099. PROCLAMATION TO THE HOUSE OF ʿABD ALLĀH AND THE HOUSE OF SULAYMĀN
  100. 100. PROCLAMATION TO ABŪ ʿALĪ
  101. 101. CODED PROCLAMATION TO ABŪ AL-KHAYR SALĀMA
  102. 102. PROCLAMATION OF INCISION AND LANCING
  103. 103. LETTER TO THE PENITENT SHAYKHS
  104. 104. PROCLAMATION CONCERNING THE PARDON OF SAʿD
  105. 105. CODED LETTER TO SHAYKH ABŪ AL-MAʿĀLĪ
  106. 106. PROCLAMATION TO THE NOBLE RADIANT ASSEMBLY
  107. 107. PROCLAMATION TO NAṢR IBN FUTŪḤ
  108. 108. CODED LETTER TO THE HOUSE OF ABŪ TURĀB
  109. 109. LETTER SENT TO THE RADIANT MOUNTAIN
  110. 110. LETTER TO THE SHAYKH ABŪ AL-MAʿĀLĪ
  111. 111. THE PROCLAMATION OF CONCEALMENT