Hello All, I decided to take a little step back and jsut mention before I start my usually pontification, with tell you how i came to my beliefs. In 1996-97 i found myself in India. I was a precocious boy and was very naive and of course was taking in all the sites. Before…
Hello All, My first Day of Ramadan has bene difficult indeed esp since i didnt eat anything significant yesterday, or really eat anything in the predawn hours. I have learned that for a few days before Ramadan people fast to ease the transition. However in my many moments of weakness I managed to perservere, thanks…
The Goal of fasting and intense prayer is to further strenghten the relationship between the seeker or aspirant to that of his creator. How does fasting, prayer and meditation help contribute to this, as I understand it: “Abstinence from food and intense prayer and meditation , may give one a certain spiritual state and that,…
I am unbelievably tired but prompted by some inner malaise i have stayed up and dawn has broken. I cant help to feel that the past has gone so far in the background that we are really standing on the threshold of a new day. A day where all is possible finally where we…
This selection comes from the book Discourses on the Sufi Path and it inspired me be even more enthused about my fasting – Enjoy A Bedouin was walking with his dog in the desert, carrying a leather skin of water on his shoulder, and crying pitifully as he went along. When asked why he was…
Taken from Tale of the Dervishes , by Idries Shah THE DAM A widow and her five small sons once lived on a piece of irrigated land whose crops gave them a bare living. Their rights to take enough water had been usurped by a tyrant who had barred and locked the channel which could…
