What the Knowersof Allah have said about the Knowledge of Allah

The work presented here was originally written for delivery at a Mawlid celebration in Abidjan Ivory Coast in 2011. It concerns ma[rifat-Allāh the experiential knowledge of God sometimes translated as gnosis or cognizance. Ma[rifa is often considered the essence of the Sufi path for it meant to aualize the last stage of the Islamic religion: after al-islām (submission) and al-īmān (faith) comes al-iḥsān (excellence) to worship God as if you are seeing Him and if you are not seeing Him know that He is seeing you.