The Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.s.) summarized Chapter Ya-Sin with the following noble hadith: “Everything has a heart. The heart of the Quran is Chapter Ya-Sin.”

The Qur’an too has a heart, and we can access that heart when we listen with the heart, from the heart. The author of this text, the contemporary female Sufi teacher Cemalnur Sargut, has a unique ability to take us to the heart, and into the heart of the Qur’an. 

Her book “O Humankind”, translated for the first time into English, is an elaborate commentary on the Chapter Ya-Sin, the heart of the Quran, about the inner meanings of each of its verses. In it, she draws on the insights of classical Muslim sages, commentaries, Rumi, Ibn ‘Arabi and others to open up the heart. 

Omid Safi, Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University, provides a glimpse of the unique beauty of Cemalnur Sargut's latest volume in English.

This volume represents the first text in English translation that brings together some of her major discourses and teachings as presented to her students through the genre of oral discourses. More specifically, the discourses that form the core of this book were collected through oral interviews with Cemalnur conducted by her students as part of a weekly program aired on a national Turkish radio station. The original Turkish transcription on which this English translation is based is titled Dinle (Listen), and was published in 2012 by Nefes press.