Ramadan kareem! This is always a special time during the year a time to abstract ourselves from our daily routine and remember our Sustainer. I personally have always taken this time to reflect and spend some time alone in meditation. I wish all of you who undertake the fast of Ramadan well. May the secret…
Indications of Spiritual Narcissism Introduction Sufi literature often overlooks the fact that persons require a modicum of self-esteem to maintain their basic human dignity. In a hadith of the Prophet Muhammad it is said, “respect is the right of every believer.” Such respect also entails the esteem of another to be fully functional, and this…
Dreams and art are the smoke signals connecting the one tribe over time. Stories and myths do the same. Often we are so greatly taxed by circumstance that we lose the larger view of time and how we are always related, not only to those around us but to those who came before us and…
The following story was taken from Sadiq Alam’s blog, The Technology of the Heart, post entitled: More Dreams Sent Our Way. I love this story because it testifies to the meeting of Oceans - Majma’Al-Ba’Rayn. I want to quote from Pir Zia in a post I had entitled Was there a point when the inner secrets of the East…
taken from History of Islamic Philosophy _____________ It is commonly said in the West that the Quran contains nothing of a mystical or philosophical nature, and that philosophers and mystics are not indebted to it in any way. Our concern here is not to argue about what Westerners find or fail to find in the Quran, but to…
How deep the stillness when I call the Name. Going inward frees me from myself and I am home again. Into that realm that is truly me and has been me since the souls were created. Ancient and deep travels this current through my soul; it is the place where I join with my Father/Mother,…
