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Abul Hasan Poetry – Where Do You See God?

Date: September 10, 2020 4:47 am Published By: Where Do You See God? They asked Kharqani: “Where do you see God?” He replied: “Wherever I don’t see myself.”   – 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,… View Article

Rumi Sufi Poetry – No Conflict With Anything I Do

Date: June 4, 2020 5:42 am Published By: No Conflict With Anything I Do God’s Face gradually fades away from the infant’s sight. If this did not happen, you would never be able to recognize and converse with the things you do. A soul’s blindness most always increases as the body grows, and certain hungers set in, and one’s attention is turned that… View Article

Rumi Sufi Poetry – A Voice that Calms

Date: April 2, 2020 5:33 am Published By: A Voice that Calms A voice that calms, movements that calm, eyes that are quiet – dreams that also do the same, and enliven too . . . Be a precious donor of peace and hope. Give love to all you meet, for so many in this world are being torn apart.     ~ Mevlana… View Article

Rumi Sufi Poetry – Lost in the Call

Date: February 6, 2020 6:27 am Published By: Lost in the Call Remember God so much that you are forgotten. Let the caller and the called disappear; Be lost in the Call.   ~ Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi _____ Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi was a Sufi Shaykh who lived in Turkey 800 years ago, being one of the greatest Saints that the world has ever seen…. View Article

Khwaja Ahmed Yasavi Poetry

Date: June 27, 2019 9:11 am Published By: Khwaja Ahmed Yasavi Poetry My Maker I’ll seek in this universe by night and day; From our four directions of space I have torn away. Let me go from four to seven; one by one to nine I’ll count. In Saturn’s sphere, from two on up to ten I’ve made my way; Three hundred and… View Article

Rabia Sufi Poetry – Die Before You Die

Date: April 25, 2019 6:53 am Published By: Die Before You Die Ironic, but one of the most intimate acts of our body is death. So beautiful appeared my death – knowing who then I would kiss, I died a thousand times before I died. “Die before you die,” said the Prophet Muhammad. Have wings that feared ever touched the Sun? I was… View Article