Key to the World’s Greatest Treasure
Consider this scenario. A 60-year-old Muslim patient with diabetes makes an appointment with his physician to come up…
Belief
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Journeying and Initiation – 3
In the eyes of those who have reached the stage of the soul at rest, all things, all…
Ramadan: The Sum of Spiritual Joys
No month of the year can sail along with as much joy that never fades and everlasting pleasure…
Journeying and Initiation – 2
Sincerity or purity of intention (ikhlas) and perfect goodness or excellence (ihsan) are the two bases and the…
Our World of Faith or, Being Cool and Peaceful in the Fire
From one perspective, some think, the entire world is in chaos—it is not possible to speak of any…
Journeying and Initiation
In the language of Sufism, when used together, sayr u suluk (journeying and initiation) denotes becoming free of…
Enchanting Nights
When the sun sets and everyone returns home, a silence envelops the streets from all sides. Everything turns…
Conversation and Communion (Sohba and Musahaba)
Sohba (Conversation) means making effective speeches to direct people to the Almighty, enlightening others with words and thoughts,…
Embodiments of Rectitude
There are some exemplary people who we may call “embodiments of rectitude.” These exceptional people look at life…
Chela 2 (Suffering)
Although suffering always takes on the same form, dervishes experience it differently according to their capacities and their…
And as Hearts Beat with Tenderness
Sacred days and nights imbue everything and everyone with their own color, their own distinctive taste, and their…
Suffering – 1 (Chela)
Denoting abandonment of all (worldly) pleasures and delights, and the affliction and hardship one bears when overcoming corporeality,…
To Believe or Not to Believe
An ordinary person has to make up to 35,000 trivial decisions every day. Two hundred twenty-seven of them…
Earth
In its capacity to manifest Divine Names and the many duties assigned to it, earth is as worthy…
Striving
According to people of the heart, mujahada (striving) means doing what is required by having been endowed with…