Fodlacızade Ahmed Rasim, one of the poets and authors of the XIXth century, is a knowledgeable person from the Naqshbandi and Khalwati tariqa and is from Üsküdar. Ahmed Rasim, who served in various state positions, wrote works on different subjects, including verse and prose. The work named Muhāsebe, which is the subject of the study, is reported among the works that could not be found although it was recorded in the sources in the studies about Ahmed Rasim. However, the work is registered in the Manuscripts Collection of the National Library with the registration number 06 Mil Yz A 8852 / 1 and is in the same book with the other works of the author. The work, in which the author tries to explain his views on the basic concepts of sufism, namely sharia, tariqa, haqiqa and marifa, was presented to the readers with its transcripted text, after giving brief information about the author’s life in the study, by making the copy description and content analysis. Muhāsebe, consisting of 15 leaves, was written in prose with rik'a calligraphy. Although the language of the work is understandable and plain in places, the language becomes heavy in the parts where Arabic and Persian words and phrases are used a lot. The work was written in a fluent style, generally free from forced expressions, and the author used verses, hadiths, Arabic phrases and quotations in accordance with the flow of thought while writing his work and to better explain the subject, Abraham, Moses, Ali and Bishr-i Hafi gave place to his stories. Ahmed Rasim, in his work, focused more on the concepts of sharia and tariqa from the four doors of sufism.
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