Alternative Healing: The Sufi Way, 2nd Edition

In Alternative Healing: The Sufi Way, 2nd Edition, Shaykh Taner Ansari has provided Sufis and anyone else interested in spiritual healing with a book that is uplifting for both spirits and bodies. Readers will love the focus of the book, which is a veritable pharmacopoeia of Quranic verses related to specific ailments affecting one's spiritual and physical being. In addition Shaykh Taner has included valuable chapters containing practical guidance for purification, diagnosis, the use of the Divine Names in healing, treatment of Jinn possession, and the use of spiritual geometric designs (taweez) that have traditionally been used for healing. Finally, recipes for soups and teas that Shaykh Taner adds in an appendix complete this book that is certainly a generous cup overflowing with God's Mercy

The second edition of Alternative Healing: The Sufi Way by Shaykh Taner Ansari is designed to give healing practitioners a basic understanding of and methods used in Sufi healing. Shaykh Taner has provided Sufis and anyone else interested in spiritual healing with a book that is uplifting for both spirits and bodies. Readers will love the focus of the book, which is a veritable pharmacopoeia of Quranic verses related to specific ailments affecting one's spiritual and physical being. The book is divided into nine chapters. The first two give general information about the conditions necessary for healing to take place, as well as techniques for making a diagnosis. Chapter III is on illnesses that are formed by the body such as cancer or diabetes. Chapters IV through VI discuss uses for specific verses from the Holy Quran; Chapter VIII, the uses of the names, or attributes, of Allah in healing. Chapter VII is devoted to unseen forces, known as jinn. Shaykh Taner discusses how to recognize if there is a jinn in the patient, how to expel the jinn, and how to complete the healing. Chapter IX gives specific uses of spiritual geometrical diagrams called taweez. Also, an appendix is included with natural chemical and biological recipes for healing.

Es-Seyyid Es-Shaykh Taner Mustafa Ansari Tarsusi er Rifai el Qadiri was born in Tarsus, Turkey, to a devout Muslim family of Seyyids (descendants of Prophet Muhammad). He graduated from Gazi University in Turkey with a degree in linguistics and from Western Michigan University with a degree in ESL. At Western Michigan University he helped found the Muslim Students Association of the United States and Canada. He was initiated into the Qadiri Rifai Tariqa in Istanbul under Es-Seyyid Es-Shaykh Muhyiddin Ansari, from whom he received his license to teach Sufism. His spiritual lineage also includes the Naqshbandi, Mevlevi, and Bektashi orders, where his Shaykh Muhyiddin Ansari sent him to study. Under his Shaykh’s orders, Shaykh Taner founded a new order of the Ansari Tariqa of the Qadiri Rifai Tariqa. After the passing of Shaykh Muhyiddin’s lead khalifa, Shaykh Nureddin Ozal, who raised Shaykh Taner as the successor of the order, Shaykh Taner assumed the leadership of the Qadiri Rifai Sufi Order worldwide as his Shaykh decreed. Shaykh Taner and his wife Es-Sharifa Es-Shaykha Muzeyyen Ansari travel to and help establish the worldwide centers of the order. Shaykh Taner teaches and gives weekly talks internationally through live classes on the Internet. He also holds regular lectures and congregational zikr. He speaks about Islam and Sufism, alternative healing and sustainable living. Shaykh Taner is a healer. Along with his wife Shaykha Muzeyyen Ansari, he presents healing workshops worldwide for healers and health professionals and anyone else interested in the healing arts.