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All Kinds to Make a World?

Posted in Islam, Poetry, Rumi, Sufism on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

” The King spoke hidden words into everyone’s ear
to the spirit of each , He gave a different message.
War among the creatures, hatred among the living
He sets them there each instant: That is a fine friend!
He spoke sweet and flowing words to the rose and made it laugh,
He made a subtle point to the cloud [...]

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Sufi Saying

Posted in Islam, Saints, Sufism on November 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »

“The path of God’s love leads through the valley of service”.
Sufi Saying.

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A Must Read

Posted in Books, Health and Living, Religion, Sufism, Zen Wisdom on November 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve only read a chapter or so of this book (yet) by Mariana Caplan but feel the subject matter is so important that I have to recommend it. Its a must read for anyone interested in the various spiritual paths on offer and their teachers with a useful discussion of counterfeit spirituality and the “less [...]

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Love

Posted in Islam, Poetry, Sufism on November 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »

now that all my motives are proved corrupt;
and all my reasons for seeking You
only self-seeking in disguise;
what meaning has “Love” for me now?
last resort of incapacity?
desperation out of destitution?
trying to follow Your path
only because nothing else in creation
makes any sense………….
what manner of passion is this?
You alone are the incomparable
and unutterable answer to this
or any other [...]

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Hz Shahidullah Faridi(ra) on Zikr

Posted in Islam, Saints, Sufism on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Our dear brother Greensufi has posted extracts from the malfuzat of Hz Shahidullah Faridi(ra) of the Chishti Sabri sisila. The shaykh gives important advice in these extracts about Zikr (remembrance) which anyone interested in the sufi path would do well to heed. I was fortunate to read Inner Aspects of Faith (by the Shaykh) many [...]

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Javed Niazi sings “Manzil-i-Ishq as Makan-i-digar Ast”

Posted in Music, Poetry, Saints, Sufism on November 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Beautiful rendition of the classic sufi ghazal by Shaykh Ahmad-e-Jam (ra) of Iran containg the celebrated verse that was the outward cause of the most famous episode of mystical ecstacy in the history of Chishti sufism, when during a sama session lasting three days in Delhi in 1235CE, Hazrat Qutubuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (ra) surrendered his [...]

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