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How to make the Site more interactive?
2010-10-25 09:48:00 1.And better and lasting Gift is with the Divine Authority for those who hearken to their Lord, and establish heart prayer; who conduct their affairs by mutual Consultation...- The Noble Recital, Surah of Mutual Consultation2.Inspirations and Creative Thoughts has its presence online since late 2004, early 2005.As its content grew, there was a need to re-organize the site. I was also advised to More About: Interactive , Site , Make , The Site
Peace, Justice, Mercy, Love and Freedom
2010-10-24 09:09:00 There is no saalam without 'adl.There is no peace without justice, brothers.There is no peace without justice.There is no justice without mercy.There is no mercy without love.And there is no love without freedom.- Message from Shaykh Abdullah Nooruddeen DurkeeUnder the guidance of Shaykh Abdullah Nooruddeen Durkee, may Allah be pleased with him and give him good health, of Islamic Study Center of More About: Freedom , Peace , Love , Justice
A Prayer by Ahmet Kayhan Dede
2010-10-22 08:05:00 My God, in every place that we go,favour us that we may be: not a war-monger, but a reconciler.Oh Lord, favour us that we may be a sower:of love, in place of hate;of forgiveness, in place of suffering;of hope, in place of despair;of enlightenment, in place of darkness;of joy, in place of sorrow.Help us to be: not of those who focus on faults,but those who kindly veil them;not of those who seek More About: Prayer
Khidr, friends of God and ilm ladunni
2010-10-21 12:11:00 1.and say: "O my Sustainercause me to grow in knowledge."- The Quran 20:114and then behold,it will be for Usto make its meaning clear.- The Quran 75:19Esoteric Knowledge (ilm ladunni: literally, means "knowledge from Our side" - hidden or inner knowledge of things conferred by God), with the permission and order of God Almighty, fills the whole earth and the heavens. I cannot explain this here. More About: Friends
The Seven Valleys
2010-10-18 19:34:00 1.The Seven Valleys is a spiritual classic, inspired by the wisdom of Sufi Path and considered to be a key scripture in Bahai faith. Its author is Mirza Husayn Ali Nuri, Bahaullah, may Allah's peace be upon his rightly guided servants. As a response to questions posed by a Qadiri Sufi Muhyi'd-Din, The Seven Valleys was written around 1860 in Baghdad. This work is cited as Bahaullah's "greatest
Dream of the Water Gatherers | Tracing the Signs
2010-10-16 11:48:00 1. An Opening Prayer There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the street of love, and becoming scintillating love. Bathe in the light of grace. Close both eyes to see with inner eyes. Open your hands, if you want to receive. Open your arms, if you want to be held. Sit down in this circle. Quit acting like a wolf, and feel the shepherd's love filling you. More About: Signs , Water , Dream
Dream of a Sufi Wayfarer | Journey to Find Water
2010-10-12 13:29:00 1. The Sufi Path takes the Wayfarer beyond the world of forms into the formless, beyond the mind into the heart. - Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, The Call and the Echo 2. Below is a wonderful dream shared today by a seeker of Sacred Path, a friend of heart and one of our regular visitor of this space. Since the dream was mostly triggered by what was shared here and what your contributions were, I More About: Journey , Find , Water , Dream
The Stages of the Stations of Suluk
2010-10-10 11:25:00 1. You shall most certainly journey from stage to stage. - The Noble Recital, 84:19 Those who attain faith and do righteous work: blessedness is for them, and a beauteous station will be their journey's end. - 13:29 .. between them We had appointed stages of journey in due proportion: travel therein, secure, by night and by day. - 34:18 2. Meaning of Suluk and Salik Sulook or Suluk, as a
The Sufi's Spiritual Course | Syed M. Zauqi Shah
2010-10-08 23:45:00 It is not intended to carry the reader here into complicated technicalities on the subject and tire him with information that may prove dry and uninteresting to a lay mind; but in order to help him to catch a glimpse of what Sufi's work is like, and what sort of attainment he aspires to, a summary account of suluk, a Sufi's Course will now be given. The Sheikh To begin with, you need the service More About: Spiritual
wings drunk with ambrosia
2010-10-06 20:23:00 by day I am a warrior of light, and by night I am a messenger of love during the day a white butterfly plays around with the rays of the sun, flowers and collects pollen that one day the bees will turn into sweet honey the butterfly cares for nothing but the light and the warmth of the sun, its wings are drunk with ambrosia little does it care about food or drink for it doesn’t need any, and More About: Drunk , Wings
all the rest is mere commentary
2010-10-05 20:41:00 A young student, eager to master all the secrets of Kabbalah, approaches his revered teacher and master. The student is lugging along a box containing 22 sacred volumes of Kabbalistic books. He lays the heavy box down with a thud in front of his master and pleads with him to teach him all of its sublime secrets and magnificent mysteries in the short time that it takes to remain balanced on one More About: Commentary , Rest
from the experience of feeding the poor @ porshee foundation
2010-10-03 22:03:00 1. During this past lunar month of Ramadan, we aspired to accelerate our program to provide food to the homeless, people living in extreme poverty and those who can not afford wholesome food for many weeks and months. 'Food security' is becoming an increasingly alarming issue across the globe which has seen riots in streets of Africa, Asia and other places, protesting high food price going beyond More About: Foundation , Experience
Remember like the never ceasing music of the boundless ocean
2010-09-29 19:27:00 Listen! Do not let your time pass idly. Either keep a rosary with you and do japa, or if this does not suit you, at least go on repeating the Name of the Lord regularly and without interruption like the ticking of a clock. There are no rules or restrictions in this. Invoke Him by the Name that appeals to you most, for as much time as you can - the longer the better. Even if you get More About: Music , Ocean
Alif Laam Meem | the Mystical Letters
2010-09-28 17:10:00 1. We come into this world, and we leave it. That much is certain. I think. Its this road we traveling on that we need to figure out. But then knowledge is like the horizon, it recedes as we approach it. So there is always the need to know more. - from movie the Alchemy of Happiness, on the life of celebrated Mystic Imam al-Ghazali 2. He who read a single Harf (Alphabet) from Allah’s Book, More About: Letters
Bowing in Humility | Reading from the Quran
2010-09-26 02:45:00 In the Name of Allah, the Universally Merciful, the Singularly Compassionate By the Mystical Letters, 'Alif Laam Miim The Revelation of the Book, without any doubt in it, is from the Lord of the Manifestations. Or do they say, "Muhammad has invented it?" No way, but it is the Truth from your Lord, that you may warn a people to whom no warner has come before you, that perhaps they may be More About: Reading , Quran
Gnosis of Divine Sufficiency (Tawakkul) and its Ways
2010-09-23 08:31:00 1. God wants to manhandle us, Lock us inside of a tiny room with Himself And practice God's dropkick. The Beloved sometimes wants To do us a great favor: Hold us upside-down And shake all the non-sense out. - Hafiz 2. Allah says in the Eternal Qur’an (Q3:172-73): “and those who – when the people say to them, ‘the people have gathered together against you’ – only increase in iman (inner
Reading Now: CONFESSIONS OF A PILGRIM
2010-09-19 22:09:00 1. Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World, and it will one day return there. - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist Paulo Coelho is one of the most favorite author to many for many reasons. I fell in love instantly with The Alchemist, arguably his best and most inspirational novel. Brazilian author, magus and mystic, Paulo Coelho is one of the most More About: Reading , Confessions
Wisdom of Mahabharata | In the heart of action, remain liberated
2010-09-16 22:07:00 1. Prelude Mahabharata is one of the earliest and sophisticated repository of sacred knowledge of mankind. The long surviving text is a classic in Hindu tradition. In its famous part, there are a number of illuminating conversations that occurs between Krishna and Arjuna. From Sufi perspective these conversations are like Sohbet between spiritual master and disciple. Who really is Krishna - is More About: Action , Heart , Wisdom
Sufi Ghazal by Abida Parveen | mujhe bekhudi yeh tu ne
2010-09-14 21:09:00 Mujhe bekhudi yeh tu ne, bhali chaashni chakhai Kisi aarzo ki dil mein, nahi ab rahi smaai O Surrender in Love! You have given me such a taste that pales all worldliness. In this heart filled with submission, no desire remains! Na hazar hai nay khatar hai, na reja hai nay dua hai. Na khayal-e-bandagi hai, na tamanna-e-khudai Neither distance nor fear... neither hope nor prayer, neither More About: Sufi , Ghazal
For Whom? | Jami
2010-09-14 06:04:00 Tomorrow when the Beloved calls out to one whom He has slain, that one will rise from the dust and once more sacrifice his soul. In the midst, you are nothing; whatever is, is the Beloved. He is the one asking, "Am I not your Lord-Sustainer?" * and He is the one replying "Yes!" Die, Jami, pining for the Beloved for whom if you die a hundred thousand deaths, He'll still ask: "For whom?
Azeemiyya Invocations
2010-09-11 11:31:00 Bismillah wa Eid Mubarak 1. The Messenger is among you Wai a'lamu anna fikum Rasulullah... Fadlan mina Allahi wa ni'amatan.. And know that the Messenger of Allah is among you... a Grace and Favour from Allah.. - Q 49:7-8 And unite him (the Beloved Messenger) with me, just as You joined the soul with the nafs, outwardly and inwardly, in wakefulness and in sleep, And make him, O Lord, a soul
The Book of Theophanies | Ibn al Arabi
2010-09-08 19:30:00 Mecca, the spiritual magnetic pole of the world - an aerial view, taken on Sunday, the 27th night of Ramadan 1431 A.H. shared by Sumayya Essack. Click on the image above for enlarged version. Thus whispers the Divine Beloved: O dear one, listen! I Am the Reality of the world, the Center of the circle.I Am the parts and the whole. I Am the Will holding Heaven and Earth in place.I Have given More About: Book
For Every Spiritual Practice: In the Beginning and at the End is Taqwa | Di
2010-09-07 14:53:00 The end is present at the beginning. - the Impressionist Sufis (the Naqshbandi) 1. We are approaching the end of the blessed month of Ramadan. In couple of days or so, the new moon shall appear, marking the end of Ramadan as well as the beginning of the Celebration of the completion of Ramadan (Eid ul Fitr). The original spirit of this single month, a particular cycle of the More About: Spiritual , Practice
Initiation into Ramadan: a Western Wayfarer’s experience of Fasting for t
2010-09-03 06:54:00 1. In the end a person tires of everything except heart’s desiring and soul’s journeying. ~ Rumi la ilaha illa Allah I am done with everything except Thee, O Thee! ~ a dervish interpretation of the kalima Sometimes in my life things happen that have a small and insignificant effect on the way I lead my life, and then suddenly, without any warning, and without any explanation or logical More About: Experience , Ramadan , Western
Abdul Hamid Khan | Tribute to a Silent Sufi Dervish
2010-08-31 22:51:00 1. ... in the company of those on whom is the Grace of God, of the prophets, the saints, the martyrs, and the righteous: Ah! what a beautiful fellowship! Such is grace from God: and Sufficient is God as the Knower. - Q 4:69-70 The earth will never lack forty men similar to the Friend of the Merciful (Abraham), and through them people receive rain (mercy) and are given help (as wasila and More About: Sufi , Khan , Silent
Paradox of One | from Ibn Arabi's 'The One Alone'
2009-04-07 23:29:00 I,. you,... he,..... she,.. we ...IN THE GARDEN........OFMYSTIC LOVERS.... THESE......... ARE NOT................... TRUEDISTINCTIONS.- Rumi1.You cannot know your Lord by making yourself nothing. Many a wise man claims that in order to know one’s Lord one must denude oneself of the signs of one’s existence, efface one’s identity, finally rid oneself of one’s self. This is a mistake. How could a More About: Paradox
Sufi Fable on the Cities of the Soul
2009-04-06 12:17:00 .. a Sufi fable in which a mysterious city becomes a metaphor for the layers of the human soul and for the created world, simultaneously.... a Wayfarer journeys inward to the castle at the Center and encounters the Principles, Virtues, and Vices clothed as administrators and members of the population. After passing through the outer domains of the nafs, Ammara, the Imperious City of Freedom and More About: Cities , Soul , Fable
Better a cucumber breakfast than a donkey prayer!
2009-04-05 03:14:00 1.Once a merchant, upon entering the mosque for the Subh prayer (prescribed morning prayer), saw a person sitting on the threshold of the mosque eating cucumbers.It was the weekly market day and as he performed his prayer, the merchant considered how much he would offer for a donkey that he wished to buy. When he came out of the mosque he saw the same person still sitting on the threshold eating More About: Breakfast , Cucumber , Prayer , Donkey
Ishraqiya | Suhrawardi's Philosophy of Illumination
2009-04-04 01:22:00 1.Allahu Nurus Samawati wal Ard. ... Nurun ala Nur.God is The Light of all planes of existence:both terrestrial and celestial,... heaven and earth,....... body and soul.The luminous candle of His Holy Personal Name, 'Allah' suspends in the globe of the heart of a gnostic by the tree of his material body.... Light upon Light,............. Light of Lights.- Non-linear translation of Quranic verses More About: Philosophy
secret of why flowers are painted in tints
More articles from this author:2009-04-02 15:20:00 when i play with you, my lovei understand why there is such a playof colours on clouds, on water,and why flowers are painted in tints.when i sing to make you dancei know why there is music in leaves,and why waves send their chorus of voicesto the heart of the listening earth.when you whisper sweet things to me,i know why there is honey in the cup of the flower,and why fruits are secretly More About: Flowers , Secret 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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