Dr. Nour Ali Tabandeh (majzoobalishah) In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate In the holy Quran, God says:“Tell them: “I f you love Allah, then follow me, Allah will love you and forgive your faults. Allah is forgiving and merciful.”2 The Prophet had two sides: the sharia; announcing the rules in […]
Category: Sufism and Mysticism
Moses and khidr(part three)
Another point in this story is Joshua’s forgetting to tell Moses (AS) about reviving the fish. The secret is, on his inner path, Joshua had not reached a position to be able to serve Moses and did not deserve to accompany him, so he forgot about the fish reviving. Besides, Joshua did not know that […]
Tales of rumi: Chinese and the Greek Artists
The Chinese and the Greeks disputed before the Sultan which of them were the better painters; and, in order to settle the dispute, the Sultan allotted to each a house to be painted by them. The Chinese procured all kinds of paints, and coloured their house in the most elaborate way. The Greeks, on the […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
A Terse Biography of His Holiness Hajj Dr. Nour Ali Tabandeh, “Majzoub Ali Shah”
His Holiness Hajj Dr Nour Ali Tabandeh (Majzoob Ali Shah) is one of His Holiness Saleh Ali Shah’s son. He was born on 14/10/1927 which coincided with his grandfather, His Holiness Nour Ali Shah, birthday in a family of wisdom and mysticism, in Beidokht Gonabad. His honorable father named him Nour Ali. His great grandfather, […]
Moses and Khidr
Dr Noor Ali TabandeIn the name of God the most merciful and compassionateIn Quran, two sacred books are mentioned, The Bible and The Torah and of course, novelty apart, these two, Quran mentions The Scrolls of Abraham and Moses: “Indeed these are the first scrolls, Scrolls of Abraham and Moses2 “. This, in ancient books […]
Ibn arabi :biography and writings (part 2)
Philosophy and Insight It is this paradox which is beautifully described in a meeting between Ibn ‘Arabi and the chief judge of Seville, the celebrated jurist and philosopher Ibn Rushd (known to the Latin West as Averroes, who wrote a famous commentary on Aristotle).I spent the day in Cordoba at the house of Abu al-Walid […]