Also, there are no fixed rules to follow on this path. For every person there is a special rule. But there is one law which applies to everything in life: sincerity, which is the only thing that is asked by a teacher of a pupil, for truth is not the portion of the insincere. Several…
Sitting With Fatima 7 One might think that being locked in a small room in a small apartment in Turkey with some water and a few apples and dates would be rather boring and uneventful. Michaela’s experience was not at all boring and was filled with “interesting” events to distract her from her prayers…
Q: I am dissatisfied with my path, how do I find another? In this matter, there are a number of considerations. Because you are dissatisfied with something it does not mean it is not of use; dissatisfaction is an emotional state which comes and goes. Ask yourself what you dislike about your religious/spiritual presentation; usually,…
SHEIKH ABU-ISHAQ’S FRIENDS As to ‘spiritual attainments’, I am reminded of the words which Sheikh Abu-Ishaq of the Green Island, near Algeciras in Spain, spoke to Ibn Arabi and reported in his twelfth-century Durrat aJ-Fakhira: ‘I regard people as of two types. First there is the friend who has a good opinion of me and…
Jami is one of my favorite Sufis of antiquity. He is considered the last great Persian Sufi Poets who died in 1492. On a side note I must say that it is pretty interesting to think that while Christophe Columbus was in the same year prepareing to or already on route to the New World…
During her days of confinement, Michaela experienced many different emotions. Many days she would find herself crying, either from happiness or from sorrow, or from both. Around the tenth day, Michaela suddenly found herself in love with the Prophet (pbuh). She had never completely understood the command in Islam to love the Prophet (pbuh). She…
