For lovers, there is a conflagration every moment. There are no taxes (imposed) on a ruined village. If (the lover) speaks wrongly,don’t call him a sinner. If the martyr is bloody, don’t wash him. For martyrs, blood is better than (being washed by) water. This fault (of being bloody) is better than a hundred correct […]
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Mevlâna Museum
Mevlâna Museum The Mevlâna Museum, located in Konya, Turkey, is the mausoleum of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a Persian people Sufi mystic also known as Mevlâna or Rumi. It was also the dervish lodge (tekke) of the Mevlevi order, better known as the whirling dervishes.Sultan ‘Ala’ al-Din Kayqubad, the Seljuk sultan who had invited Mevlâna […]
Mysticism in sufi Islam (Part Four)
Sufi Brotherhoods Following the period of Rumi the process of the development of the Sufi brotherhoods continued apace. Starting with the Qadiriyya (associated with ʿAbd al-Qadir al-Jilani, 1077–1166), which today is both the oldest of the brotherhoods as well as the one that has the broadest reach throughout the Muslim world, brotherhoods became prominent in […]
Muslim Saints and Mystics Episodes from the Tadhkirat al-Auliya’ (Memorial of the Saints) by Farid al-Din Attar (Part Six)
Near-Death Experience: How to Live Without Fear
THE new age movement heralded by Theosophy in the late 19th century, is at last bearing meaningful fruit here in the 21st. “Theosophy is indeed the life, the indwelling spirit which makes every true reform a vital reality,” wrote H. P. Blavatsky the movement’s inspired original spokesperson. “Theosophy is Universal Brotherhood, the very foundation as […]
ZikrThe Remembrance of Allah (Part Two)
Seyyed Hossein Nasr – the goal of Sufism
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Iran attacks leave 12 dead at parliament and Khomeini mausoleum
BBC: Twin attacks on the Iranian parliament and Ayatollah Khomeini’s mausoleum in the capital, Tehran, have killed at least 12 people and injured many more. The assault on the parliament building appears to be over, after hours of intermittent, audible gunfire there. A suicide bomber died at the mausoleum. Iranian officials say they managed to […]
Drunken Flute in Whirling Dervish
Mr. Shafique Farooqi is a globally recognized artist for his solo and group exhibitions, art studio and galleries work, calligraphy, paintings, seminars and actual art contribution The artist has been expressing his impressions, observations and experiences in more than 10, 000 art pieces and 102 Solo Show in Pakistan and abroad. He has mastered the […]