"In this era of wretchedness, where anyone and everyone produces religious works and peddles sacred items as if they were wares, this work—which I have sought to protect from becoming a tool of commerce or being confined within frames of expression incompatible with them, by adhering to a magnificent religious standard that almost no one observes, and by not presenting the verses, hadiths, and blessed sayings contained within in their original forms—is a droplet as precious as an elixir of life from our source of ecstasy, and the crown of the Great East ideal." / N.F.K.
Rabıta-i Şerife, which belongs to Abdülhakîm Arvasî and upon which Necip Fazıl worked "with a respect, anxiety, and meticulousness that bled his brain and scorched his pen for every word," outlines, as its name suggests, a very special topic: the way in which "Râbıta" (spiritual bond) is performed, its methods, and its etiquette.
In the second part of the book, there are various subjects from the Efendi Hazretleri's lessons, lectures, and letters, an extensive study on the subject of Wahdat al-Wujud (Unity of Existence), and the "Treatise on the Soul."