All my moments I spend with You, my Companion, the tranquility of the entire world. Light and joy, refuge and sanctuary: All are You. You are my sorrows´ Confidant, Source of all my strength and patience. Lacking nothing, You´re beyond comparsion, above anything that can be said or thought. My New Year is You: my…
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…
I have been fortunate in that I have not received too many negative comments on the blog. But today I received the following comment from someone called simply ‘no important’ to my posting Another excerpt from Dogs from a Sufi point of View by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh Subhana Allah! What kind of religion do you follow?…
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,…
