The Secret Rose Garden

This classic Sufi treatise by Sa'd Ud Din Mahmud Shabistari is a concise poetic exposition of mystical metaphysics, especially the relationship between unity, divine reality, and the human soul. Historically important in Persian Sufism, it offers readers aphoristic verses and explanatory commentary that illuminate the symbolic language of Islamic mysticism.

Sa'd al-Din Mahmud Shabistari (fl. early 14th century) was a Persian Sufi poet and mystical thinker best known for the "Golshan-i Raz" ("Rose Garden of Mystery"). His brief but influential work became a classic of Persian mystical literature and a concise exposition of Sufi metaphysics and symbolism.