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Message of Rabi al-Awwal: Recognizing the Deeper and True Sunnah of the Messenger

1. Reply of Love is only by Love The response of Love's call can only be given through Love. There is nothing else, neither below, nor above. Reply of Love is only by Love. How can you not commemorate the praising of him who is the fountain of p...

Book Review: Sufism for Western Seekers by Dr. Stewart Bitkoff

1. The Book  The Sufi work is foremost the quest for gnosis (ma'rifah) - the state of opening or illumination in union with God. Sufism undeniably exists as a living esoteric tradition of human transformation and as such is a valuable resource ...

God speaks to each of us: Rainer Maria Rilke

1. God speaks to each of us as He makes us,         continuous, then with us, silently out of the night,          He walks. These are the words we dimly hear:   &...

Sufi Poetry of Shaikh Abu Sa’id Abul-Khayr

Shaikh Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr (967-1049) was one of the earlier Sufi poets and is considered one of the great medieval Persian poets.. He was from what is modern day Turkmenistan, just north of Iran and Afghanistan in Central Asia. He lived more th...

Blessed is the Day when Christ was born: As-salamu AAalayya yawma wulidtu

Church of Nativity, Bethlehem, Jerusalem Wa as-salamu AAalayya yawma wulidtu,  wa yawma amootu, wa yawma obAAathu hayyan. "Peace is on me the day I was born, the day that I die, and the day that I shall be raised up to life (again)"! - f...

Thus spoke the Messenger of Love

Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Love, may our love be perfected for him has transmitted, "A Mu'min (person of awakened faith) is an embodiment of love and affection and there is no good in one who neither loves nor is loved." - Sacred Trad...

God’s hands are open wide and becoming distributor of God

Truly GOD's hands are open wide,HE gives as HE please. - The Quran 5:64 Generosity in giving, in providing for others is a Divine Quality and we partake in that Divine action when we give to others. One of the Holy Names of God is al-Wasi or One Who...

Divine Justice and the Question of Evil

Selection from DIVINE JUSTICE or The Problem of Evil by Javad Shayvard The following brief but important text was published by World Organization for Islamic Services (First Edition 1977). Here I have shared a highlighted edition. You may re...

Fatiha ~ The Opening: An Esoteric Commentary

بِسْمِ اللّهِ الرَّحْمـَنِ الرَّحِيم In the Name of God the Compassionate, the Merciful! Commentary: 19 letters indicate the pleroma consisting of God, the 4 Archangels of the Throne (i.e. Mika'il/Michael, Isra'...

From the Life of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya

The Verse that brought Revolution in the Heart Circa 1256 / 1258 after completing his zahiri ilm, (external sciences of religion) including the commentary of Quran, Hadith, Islamic Jurisprudence and other knowledge such as mathematics and astronom...

Deceptions of the World and Present Life | continued

1. Deception \De*cep"tion\, n. [F. d['e]ception, L. deceptio, fr. decipere, deceptum.]      1. The act of deceiving or misleading.      2. The state of being deceived or misled.      3. Th...

Deceptions in the world and its variations

1. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem; sed libera nos a malo. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from darkness. - Prayer of Blessed Christ And it is Allah: the Divine Being who brings the faithful from darkness into the Light of guidance. ...

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