On Wednesday, investigations and examinations regarding the charges laid against six Gonabadi Dervishes commenced in Dezful’s County court.According to Majzooban Noor reporter, Gholamreza Abarkar, Masood Majdi Nasab, Hassan Diapour, Mohammad Javad Babaii, Ghassem Mangari and Mohammad Maleki are the six Dervishes under investigation and charged for various allegations such as disturbance of peace, damaging public […]
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The experience and doctrine of love in Ibn ‘Arabî (Part one)
“By God, I feel so much love that it seems as though the skies would be rent asunder, the stars fall and the mountains move away if I burdened them with it: such is my experience of love ” If I attributed this quotation to Rûmî or to Ruzbehân Baqlî, no one would be surprised: […]
The way of Sufi
Everyone is familiar with the whirling dervishes; more likely, everyone at sometime has seen a film on Turkey and its folklore, where it is impossible to ignore dance of the dervishes, dressed in long white robes and high felt headdresses, whirling to the monotonous rhythm of a haunting music. Some know that the dervishes are […]
SULTAN ‘ALISHAH GUNABADI — THE RENEWER OF THE NEMATULLAHI ORDER IN IRAN (part two)
UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran Ahmed Shaheed
October 2016 report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran: ,Ahmad Shaheed, UN’s special correspondence on human rights issues in Iran, has published his report for the period between 1/1/2016 till now. With the completion of Mr Shaheed’s assignment, Aseme Jahangir, human rights activist from Pakistan […]
Moses and Khidr (part two)
The story of Moses and Khidr is the second stage of the journey. This stage, is finding Khidr or a guide. The place of Khidr’s appearance is Majma Al-Bahrein meaning a place where on one side it faces this world and the other side it face the afterlife. It has access to both worlds. The […]
‘Attar and the Persian Sufi Tradition: The Art of Spiritual Flight
Farid al-Din ‘Attar (d. 1221) was the principal Muslim religious poet of the second half of the twelfth century. Best known for his masterpiece “Mantiq al-tayr”, or “The Conference of Birds”, his verse is still considered to be the finest example of Sufi love poetry in the Persian language after that of Rumi. Distinguished by […]
Quotes of Farid Din Attar
The home we seek is in eternity; The Truth we seek is like a shoreless sea, Of which your paradise is but a drop. This ocean can be yours; why should you stop Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew? The secrets of the sun are yours, but you Content yourself with motes trapped in its […]
Ibn arabi :biography and writings part(3)
Writings Much of his time in Mecca must have been occupied in writing – several major works were completed, and a start was made upon the enormous encyclopaedia of esoteric knowledge, the ‘Futuhat al-Makkiyah’. Apparently while writing this he used to fill three notebooks a day, wherever he happened to be. This process must have […]
The Quiet Comeback of Istanbul’s Hidden Sufi Lodges
The banned dervish halls are scattered through the city.By Joshua Allen OCTOBER 10, 2016 The whirling of the Mevlevi dervishes is one of Turkey’s most iconic images, popularized in films and tourist ads for decades. Naturally, these ads do not mention that it has been illegal to perform this ritual for almost 100 years. In […]