Hz Mawlana Rumi

If you have lost heart in the Path of Love,
Flee to me without delay: I am a fortress Invincible.

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800th Birthday of Hz Mawlana (RA)

September 30th is the birthday of Hz Mawlana Rumi. The excellent Darvish blog has a nice reminder too. Here’s a poem form the Diwan Shams-e-Tabrizi which offers an insight into the secret of Mawlana’s popularity.
Shall I tell you our secret?
We are charming thieves who steal hearts
and never fail because we are
the friends of the [...]

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Shahabiyat 2.1 (on the prayer)

As far as lack of attentiveness or stray thoughts in prayer is concerned one should endeavor to identify whether these are the result of our “continued thinking to ourself” or just incoming automatic thoughts. Those thoughts that we bring to mind ourselves can also be stopped by an act of will. An easy way of [...]

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Shahabiyat 2 (on the prayer)

…..one of the other qualities of the prayer that impressed me was that whereas to gain access to worldly officials, landlords and rulers one has to cross a series of hurdles and use various means such as go-betweens; to gain access to the Lord of the Worlds and the Ruler of Rulers one has only [...]

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Shahabiyat 1 (On Qur’an recitation)

My intellectual and emotional attachment to Islam is the result of a few turns of good fortune. My first piece of good fortune was that I was born into a muslim family. My second instance of good fortune was that whilst in the third grade of Akbar Islamia High School in Jammu (Kashmir), our teacher [...]

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HZ Qudratullah Shahab (RA)

Our brother Green Sufi has posted a picture of Hz Qudratullah Shahab here. Shahab was well known as a civil servant and writer during his life. His autobiography Shahab Nama has become something of a modern classic. However what was not known during his life was that Shahab sahib was also an Uwaysi/Malami sufi [...]

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A Saying of Imam Zayn al-Abedin

If you are aware of any of your actions, that is a proof that it has not been accepted (by God). For that which is accepted is elevated and hidden from you; your not noticing it is a sign of its acceptance.
Imam Zayn al-Abedin (RA).

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The Breaking Wave of Love

This is vintage Mawlana (May God sanctify his lofty secret).
The Breaking Wave of Love
Ah, once more he put a fire in me,
And once more this crazy heart
is craving the open plains.
This ocean of love breaks into another wave
And blood pours from my heart
in all directions.
Ah, one spark flew
and burned the house of my heart.
Smoke filled [...]

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Hz Mawlana on Fasting

The following is an interesting poem by Hz Mawlana (RA) on fasting and its reward. It should be read in the context of the hadith: ” The fast is for me and I am its reward”. Here’s what Mawlana says:
Celebrate! The month of fasting has come.
Pleasant journey to the one
Who is the company of the [...]

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Ramadan

Ramadan: The fire of extreme desire is called Ramdh and to accept and undergo this experience for the sake of God is the period of Ramadan which is Ayyamun ma’dudat  (counted days). This is necessarily followed by “Eid ul Fitr”, which means therefore that, our pure nature (fitrat e muttahara) should sprout forth after this [...]

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