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The Birth of Jesus Christ (AS) (Part One)
THE ERASURE OF ISLAM FROM THE POETRY OF RUMI (Part One)
couple of years ago, when Coldplay’s Chris Martin was going through a divorce from the actress Gwyneth Paltrow and feeling down, a friend gave him a book to lift his spirits. It was a collection of poetry by Jalaluddin Rumi, the thirteenth-century Persian poet, translated by Coleman Barks. “It kind of changed my life,” Martin […]
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Tales of rumi:The Youth who wrote a letter of complaint about his rations to the King.
A certain youth in the service of a great king was dissatisfied with his rations, so he went to the cook and reproached him with dishonoring his master by his stingi-The Masnavi ness. The youth would not listen to his excuses, but wrote off an angry letter of complaint to the king, in terms of […]
Dervish Acquitted, Five Freed in Dezful
Ali Moazzam Goudarzi, a dervish of Nematollahi Gonabadi, who had been earlier sentenced to two years in prison by the Revolutionary Court, was acquitted after three appeals court.Majzooban Noor added that the aforementioned dervish, in the climax of the arrest of lawyers, human rights activists of dervishes as well as Webmasters of Majzooban, was arrested […]
The Sufi’s Path: Mevlevi Order (Part Two)
Whirling Dervishes, Sema Seb-i Arus, The Wedding Day Sema is part of the inspiration of Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi as well as of Turkish custom, history, beliefs and culture. It is what we do as a form of remembrance of God. From a scientific viewpoint we witness that contemporary science definitely confirms that the fundamental condition […]
Turkey, Japan to join hands for Sufism project
To enhance cultural and academic cooperation between Turkey and Japan, a new project “İki Doğu’nun Köprüsü: Tasavvuf Kültürü Eğitim Programı” (The Bridge of Two Easts: Education Program for Sufi Culture) has been initiated by bringing together academic and research institutions from Turkey and Japan. With the aim of enhancing public diplomacy, the project partners will […]
The way of Sufi (Part Four)
Recipient or Content?! Indeed the truth is that we are not only constituted of a mortal physical body with five senses that will perish with us at our death, but that each of us has also a soul or energetic body, invisible but immortal. This invisible body has five senses specific to its own world […]
The experience and doctrine of love in ibn ‘Arabi’ (Part Two)
Ibn Arabî concludes the scriptural argumentation of this introductory paragraph by mentioning a series of akhbâr, “traditions” attributed to the Prophet. I shall only reiterate one, due to the great significance it has within the Akbarian doctrine on love, “God is beautiful,” the Envoy of God declared, “and He loves beauty.” This hadîth is in […]