Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam is the first exhibition at the MFAH devoted to Sufism, a historic branch of Islam whose followers seek mystical union with God. The presentation focuses on some of the most important Sufi ideas and practices that found expression through the arts of the Islamic world, beginning […]

  Nepal officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal is a landlocked central Himalayan country in South Asia. It has a population of 26.4 million and is the 93rd largest country by area. Bordering China in the north and India in the south, east, and west, it is the largest sovereign Himalayan state. Nepal does […]

“I follow the Way of Love,and where Love’s caravan takes its path,there is my religion, my faith.”

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 […]

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 Mystical Teaching Method The one who sincerely seeks the way to substantial development indeed produces around himself waves, waves perceived by the teacher and waves that show the seeker the techniques of esoteric self-interrogation. The teacher will appear at the right time in the life of the seeker. As with any other profession, the […]

The Truth Lies in Your Heart  The base postulate of Sufism. as with all mysticism, is that there is no need for blissful faith in a supposed truth, as advocated by dogmatic religions. All answers lie within the self, deep in the heart. Sufism teaches the follower who sincerely seeks the truth to develop the […]

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 […]