“Do not envy one another; do not hate one another; do not turn away from another; and do not undercut one another, but be you. O servants of Allah, brothers.”
Tag: mysticism
Jesus Christ in Rumi’s Poetry and Parables
Jesus Christ in Rumi’s Poetry and ParablesBy Dr. Rasoul Sorkhabihttp://www.interreligiousinsight.org/April2008/April08Sorkhabi.pdfDr. Rasoul Sorkhabi, is a professor at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and directs the Rumi Poetry Club ([email protected]).
Mysticism, The Hidden Sun of the Religion
The relationship between Religion and MysticismAn Interview with Dr. Heshmat Allah Riazi Much has been written by different intellectuals on the lack of correspondence between mysticism and a mystical life that is filled with love and the obligations associated with the modern contemporary life; but is the fire that was burning the soul of […]
Masnavi e Manavi : The Drunken Turkish Amir and the Minstrel.
Book 6.Story III.The Drunken Turkish Amir and the Minstrel. Then follow exhortations to undergo “the pains of negation,” as they are called in the Gulshan i Raz, i.e., even as the great saint and poet Faridu-‘d-Din ‘Attar cast away his drugs, to cast one’s own will,
Osho : ‘Acharya Rajneesh’
Osho was one of the most famed as well as the most controversial spiritual leaders of his time. He came to be known as ‘Acharya Rajneesh’ in 1960s, assumed the name ‘Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh’ during the 1970s and 1980s and called himself ‘Osho’ in 1989.
Shams Tabrizi
Shams-i-Tabrīzī or Shams al-Din Mohammad (died ca.1248) was a Persian Muslim, who is credited as the spiritual instructor of Mawlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhi, also known as Rumi and is referenced with great reverence in Rumi’s poetic collection, in particular “Diwan-i Shams-i Tabrīzī” (The Works of Shams of Tabriz).
Observations on the Meaning of Bay’at
HU121Hajj Dr. NoorAli Tabandeh (Majzoub ‘Alishah)[1]Bay’at literally means buying and selling, and comes from the word bay‘, although it pertains to a specific type of buying and selling. In the Qur’an, the following verse is specifically about bay’at, in which God says:(Verily, Allah has purchased from the faithful their selves and their properties, and […]
The Two Doors
The existential question that preoccupies each one of us can be thus summarized “Who am I?Where I do come from? and Where am I going?”
Baba Taher Oryan
Baba Taher Oryan, (var. Baba Tahir, in Persian: بابا طاهر) was an 11th century Persian poet and mystic. Baba Taher is known as one of the most revered and respectable early poets in Iranian literature. Most of his life is clouded in mystery. He probably lived in Hamadan, the capital city of the Hamedan […]
Clarification and Answering to the Questions (Part One)
PrefaceMajzoobān e Noor Website along with its mission of informing and illuminating Erfan (Gnosis) and Islamic Tasavof (Being Sufi) issues and news in Iran for the masses, surveys the obscure cases, neglected items, or suspicions which Faqr (Poverty and Destitution in front of God) foes have constructed.