Date: May 18, 2024 7:28 amPublished By:sufiadmin
One Day One day He did not leave after kissing me. From ‘Love Poems from God’ by Daniel Ladinsky. Rabia al-Adawiyyah of Basra, Iraq was a famous Sufi Saint, who was noted for her asceticism and many legends have been told about her life. Her concept of Divine Love was that God should be… View Article
Date: April 21, 2024 10:35 amPublished By:sufiadmin
That Lives in Us If you put your hands on this oar with me, they will never harm another, and they will come to find they hold everything you want. If you put your hands on this oar with me, they will no longer lift anything to your mouth that might wound your precious land… View Article
Date: November 18, 2023 7:37 amPublished By:sufiadmin
Your Nothingness Give to God your nothingness He’ll give you His Being. – Shaykh Abul Hasan al-Kharqani. Shaykh Abul Hasan is the 7th Master in the Naqshbandi Golden Chain – refer to the ‘Sufism’ section > ‘The Golden Chain’ for his biography. Translated by Omid Safi, in his book ‘Radical Love – Teachings from… View Article
Date: September 14, 2023 5:46 pmPublished By:sufiadmin
We are the Flute We are the flute; our music comes from God. Our outer form, regulated by the Law, is a reed flute through which passes the breath. Both the outer form (the Law) and the hollow interior (the Way) are essential to its being a flute. But there is only music when the… View Article
Date: June 3, 2021 7:09 pmPublished By:sufiadmin
Pay Homage If God said, “Rumi pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms,” there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, not one feeling, not any act, I would not bow to. ~ Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi Translated by Daniel Ladinsky, in his book, ‘Love Poems of God”…. View Article
Date: November 12, 2020 3:48 amPublished By:sufiadmin
The Chance of Humming A man standing on two logs in a river might do all right floating with the current while humming in the now. Though if one log is tied to a camel, who is also heading south along the bank – at the same pace – all could still be well with… View Article
