Happiness Without Death: Desert Hymns

Assad Ali is one of the most important figures in contemporary Arabic literature. The voice of these poems is the voice of the Desert in an ardent appeal to the Heart of Reality. As Dr. Ali himself says these hymns have not been written to address any one of the creatures even though they are exuberant with creatures' concerns and their true interest is in them and in appealing to God for them. They have been written in a method similar to physical training but as a spiritual training in the world of the body and the Word