NY Nimatullahi Sufi Center News The Master of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order, Dr. Alireza Nurbakhsh, will visit the New York Sufi Center from December 24 through December 27. Anyone who is interested in the Sufi path and who wishes to meet with him is invited to call 1-(212)-924 7739. To learn more about Sufism and the…
I have to say thank you to all of your comments here and on face book, and through email about the prayers for my burning in hell. I am in no way saddened or phased and will be happy to continue sharing with you all through the blog as I have been until the time…
All human beings during their lives experience love and friendship to some extent. Human love can be classified into three basic categories according to its intensity, quality and limitations. The first form of love is friendship based on social conventions where two people behave in accordance with the principle: “I for myself, you for yourself;…
The second major way to overcome the ego for Bayazid is to attract other people’s blame and to disgrace oneself in the eyes of society. This may sound pretty silly to us now. Why would anyone want to disgrace himself? In our contemporary western culture, the emphasis is on the promotion and glorification of the…
The Chain of Initiation (Silsila) and Authorization of Mastership Sufis believe that a person is not qualified to be a spiritual master unless he has traversed the stages of the Path under the guidance of a “Perfected One.” Moreover, he must have been authorized to be a master by the previous master or qutb. In short,…
Fana Fi’l-Shaikh One of the stages in Sufism is known as fana fi ‘l-shaikh (“the passing away of the self in the master”). Some of those who travel the Path become so thoroughly attracted (majzub) to the master by the perfection of their iradah or love (‘ishq) that they become annihilated in the being of the master, and in…
