“What I Witnessed in My Sheikh – The Direction from Annihilation to Subsistence (Fenadan Bekaya İstikamet)”, penned by Faruk Hanoğlu, stands out as a book of ideas that places Sufism at the center of a revival against the spiritual disintegration of the age.

This work charts the roadmap of a Sufi who is not merely seeking inner peace, but is obligated to establish the truth in the outside world, detailing the kind of personality and intellectual struggle a member of a Sufi order should possess. One who is not content with dhikr (remembrance) alone, but is equipped with deep thought… One who does not withdraw into a corner, but builds a front… A Sufi who, while loving his sheikh, carries his aspiration… It aims to re-present Sufism as a direction that must be lived with consciousness and action, not just in the heart, but in science, art, economics, law, the state, and every sphere of life. This book aspires to be a chain of ideas that connects spirituality to truth, and truth to the construction of society. The reader will not only be informed; they will find direction, take on responsibility, and set out on the path.

The approach that dominates the entirety of the work points to the fact that Sufism is not a passive inner peace, but an active civilizational endeavor. The author establishes a line of Sufism that carries the birth of the disciple’s personality to intellectual maturity and, from there, to social construction. In every chapter, from economics to art, from law to science, it is emphasized that the Sufi must possess ideas and take action in the name of God in all fields of the age.