Know Yourself, God: The Islamic Path from Self-Deception to Spiritual Awakening

Who are you beneath everything you have been told to be?Most people spend their entire lives defending an identity that was never truly their own - a self assembled from borrowed ideas, inherited expectations, and the quiet pressure of a culture that decided who they should be before they could speak.Know Yourself, Know God is a profound exploration of self-deception and spiritual awakening, drawing together the philosophy of Jules de Gaultier and the timeless wisdom of the Islamic spiritual tradition. In twelve chapters, it traces the soul's descent into illusion - the architecture of the false self, the idol within, the tyranny of the borrowed life, the war of competing voices - and then maps the long, courageous journey home.Weaving together the Quran, prophetic teachings, Sufi poetry, and the voices of Rumi, Al-Ghazali, Pascal, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Wittgenstein, this book offers a literary-philosophical meditation on the deepest insight every spiritual tradition has known: that self-knowledge and the knowledge of God are not two journeys, but one.A book for seekers, readers of Islamic spirituality, and anyone who senses that what they are searching for has always been waiting within.