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• Sitting with the Sufis: A Christian Experience of Learning Sufism | Review

  
  Inspirations and Creative Thoughts — Authority: 462
  1."At a time when Sufism is coming to the West, Mary Blye Howes book fills a need for first hand accounts from Westerners who have experienced its fragrance, its taste, and its beauty. In the Sufi way of life, in its knowledge and love, are many gifts for our culture." - Kabir Helminski, Sufi teacher and author"This ...
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• Don’t give me back…

  
  ~:: MARYAM ::~ Tasawwuf Blog — Authority: 127
            “Don’t give me back to my old companions. No friend but you. Inside you I rest from wanting. Don’t let me be that selfishness again."   Unseen Rain. Quatrains of Rumi. By John Moyne and Coleman ...
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• Sufis and Jesus

  
  ~:: MARYAM ::~ Tasawwuf Blog — Authority: 127
  Christianity is rooted in the belief that Jesus is the Son of God, so is Islam’s version of Christ a source of tension, or a way of building bridges between the world’s two largest faiths? The Sufi philosopher al-Ghazali described Jesus as "the prophet of the soul" and the Sufi master Ibn Arabi called him "the ...
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• "Mona Lisa And The Clown And The Cool Rain Of The Law" / Whirling Dervish

  
  Talking 37th Dream With Rainbow (rumors of peace) — Authority: 126
  ( 42 years: a book of changes , pages 28 and 29) Watch and listen . After watching the video I found the following : What is Sufism? There is a traditional Sufi story about four travellers—a Persian, a Turk, an Arab, and a Greek, arguing as to how they should spend a single coin they possessed. The Persian ...
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• Sufi Music Festival called Samaa: The Mystic Ecstasy

  
  ~:: MARYAM ::~ Tasawwuf Blog — Authority: 127
  NCPA creates a 2 day Sufi Music Festival this December ... Presents Samaa: The Mystic Ecstasy With an aim to offer its patrons a taste of the varied forms of music tradition, NCPA, Indias premier art and culture institution, presents a two-day long, soul-stirring Sufi Music Festival called Samaa: The Mystic ...
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• ‘Sufism’ effective offset to socio-cultural degradation

  
  ~:: MARYAM ::~ Tasawwuf Blog — Authority: 127
  Wednesday, December 09, 2009 Islamabad At a time when ‘Sufism’ is being promoted as an antidote to religious fundamentalism, Dr. Fatima Hussain’s new book titled ‘The War that Wasn’t; The Sufi and the Sultan’ comes as an answer to all queries regarding ‘Sufi’ school of thought ...
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• Sattyer Gahiney | A Glimpse into the Mystic, Folk Islam of Bangladesh

  
  Inspirations and Creative Thoughts — Authority: 462
  1.Counterfeit gold existsbecause there is such a thingas real gold.- RumiContrary to popular misconception, Islam is not monolithic. In the traditional sense, Islam is not even a religion. Then what it is, you would ask? But wait a second before one even attempt to answer you because the conditioning of your mind and ...
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• Poem: In a World With No Time for Poetry

  
  Ecstatic Exchange / Poetry of Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore — Authority: 103
  In a world with no time for poetry we still have to die. It would be so convenient if we could just turn in our badge with our full-color picture on it, go into a room set aside for that purpose at the corporate office and evaporate, our desk left in order, instructions on the computer for ...
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• Answers to Prayers – St. Isaac of Syria

  
  Darvish — Authority: 109
  Salaam and Greetings of Peace: If God is slow to grant your request and you do not receive what you ask for promptly, do not be grieved, for you are not wiser than God. It this happens to you, it is because either your way of life does not accord with your request, or because the pathways of your heart are ...
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• Dharma Poetry: Hafiz

  
  One City: A Buddhist Blog for Everyone — Authority: 470
  by Paul Griffin In honor of Jessica Rasp s new four-week-long course on the 14th century mystic poet Hafiz , Id like to share a Hafiz poem today on the ol blog.  Hafiz is similar to the more well-know Sufi poet Rumi.  But he is also quite different.  As Jessica puts it on her IDP course page , "Hafiz is like ...
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• Sufism

  
  ~:: MARYAM ::~ Tasawwuf Blog — Authority: 127
  “The basis of Sufism is consideration of the hearts and feelings of others. If you haven’t the will to gladden someone’s heart, then at least beware lest you hurt someone’s heart, for on our path, no sin exists but this.” Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh, Master of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order. sufism tasawwuf ...
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• Arabic Traces In Ridges of Sand By Mustapha Marrouchi

  
  ~:: MARYAM ::~ Tasawwuf Blog — Authority: 127
  Posted on 07 December 2009 by Sailanmuslim For the uninitiated, the flowing of lines and seemingly idiosyncratic spattering of dots and dashes that characterize the Arabic script can appear an inscrutable enigma. That it is a cursive system with few clues as to exactly where discrete elements find their ...
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• Understanding Islam by Frithjof Schuon

  
  ~:: MARYAM ::~ Tasawwuf Blog — Authority: 127
  A short piece from a classic book that introduces the Sufi understanding of Islam, with thanks to the friend who sent it to me. — Surah al-Fatihah (The Opening Chapter of the Qur’an) “That which opens” (the Qur’an) has a capital importance, for it constitutes the unanimous prayer of Islam. It is ...
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• Three Books on Sufism

  
  ~:: MARYAM ::~ Tasawwuf Blog — Authority: 127
  You can read these books online. The titles are: Ikmalush Shiyam Description : Ikmalush Shiyam (Perfection of Morals) is a treatise for the Muhibbeen (Lovers of Allah). Although every Mu’min is a Lover of Allah, this treatise is largely directed to the attention of the Muhibbeen who are conscious of ...
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• Sufism. An Article

  
  ~:: MARYAM ::~ Tasawwuf Blog — Authority: 127
  The author has named it "Sufism, the other face of Islam". Unfortunately, when we speak of Islam, many are reminded of Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, terrorism, bigotry, oppression of women. But not all of Islam is the case (not all Basques are ETA). There is a large moderate Islam, and within it, a current ...
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• Islamic Education – Not Just For Muslims Anymore [?]

  
  The Manrilla Blog | Exploring Islam In America Through the Social Sciences — Authority: 120
  I greatly enjoyed Dr. Sherman Jackson’s keynote address at the 2009 fundraiser for the Quba Institute. In it, he touched on some key, if not entirely new, points about the nature of education as it relates to Muslims. To a greater extent, his talk was focused at Blakcamerican Muslims. I have a number of thoughts ...
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• GLOSSARY OF SUFISM 12. Muraaqabah

  
  ~:: MARYAM ::~ Tasawwuf Blog — Authority: 127
  المراقبة Watchfulness ( muraaqabah ) "Watchfulness" is the servants perpetual concious condition in which Allah is instructed [of everything], or the one who respects Gods rights ( huquuq Alllah ) secretely and openly, keeping pure from all illusion, sincere in his veneration ( ihtiraam ). She is ...
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• Love

  
  ~:: MARYAM ::~ Tasawwuf Blog — Authority: 127
  “You will not arrive at a satisfactory state in religion unless you treat all creations with reverence and do not disdain any being as long as God has created it.” Ibn Al-Arabi sufism tasawwuf sufi poems sufi masters
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• Turkey to honor Persian poet Mowlavi

  
  ~:: MARYAM ::~ Tasawwuf Blog — Authority: 127
  Turkey is planning to hold a ceremony in commemoration of the world-renowned Persian poet Mowlavi in his eternal resting place in Konya. The 10-day event will include mystic musical performances and various symposiums about the Sufi poet. Visitors will also have the chance to watch Whirling Dervishes dancing ...
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• Solitude and Isolation

  
  ~:: MARYAM ::~ Tasawwuf Blog — Authority: 127
  "There’s a difference between solitude and isolation," Sister Charlene said. "True solitude puts you more in touch. Part of the contemplative life is to be for goodness, in whatever form it takes. Every religion has a contemplative tradition — Islam, Sufism. If we ever meet on the contemplative level, if we can ...
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