epub |eng | | Author:Idries Shah [Shah, Idries]

49 Warning Nasrudin entered the Land of Fools. ‘O people,’ he cried, ‘sin and evil are hateful!’ He did the same thing every day for some weeks. One day as ...

epub |eng | | Author:Neil Douglas-Klotz

‘Only two things can satisfy a greedy person's eyes: hopeless contentment in Allah or the dust of the grave.’” A QUESTION OF ANTICIPATION AND VALUE Sa'adi relates: I once heard ...

epub |eng | 2012-04-15 | Author:Javid MD, Ahmad [Javid MD, Ahmad]

CHAPTER SEVEN THE POWER OF GIVING Sharing the bounties of God with others, helping people in need, and serving fellow human beings in distress is the shortest possible way to ...

epub |eng | 2017-10-11 | Author:John Baldock

The water (or waters) of Kauthar, which Rumi mentions often in his writings, is a reference to a fountain in Paradise which is the subject of an eponymous surah in ...

epub |eng | 2015-03-15 | Author:Idries Shah

Prayer Is Better than Sleep... AS SOON AS he had intoned the Call to Prayer from his minaret, the Mulla was seen rushing away from the mosque. Someone shouted: ‘Where ...

azw |eng | 2016-12-07 | Author:Yasmin Henkesh [Henkesh, Yasmin]

Figure 29: Map showing possession religions in Africa and early Homo sapiens migration If all these possession cults share a common origin, they should share similar traits, right? And they ...

epub |eng | | Author:Idries Shah [Shah, Idries]

Some Israelites reviled Jesus one day as he was walking through their part of town. But he answered by repeating prayers in their name. Someone said to him: ‘You prayed ...

epub |eng | 2017-10-11 | Author:John Baldock

Junayd was asked about the nature of love. He answered: ‘Some say it is a state of harmony, and some say that it is altruism, and some say that it ...

epub |eng | 2017-03-15 | Author:Idries Shah

The Difference AFTER GIVING A lecture, Sufi Putsirr asked whether there was anyone present who wanted to ask a question. A visitor said: “I have heard a great deal about ...

epub |eng | | Author:Idries Shah [Shah, Idries]

It seems unlikely that much progress towards the widespread understanding of Sufi ideas will be made until more scholars avail themselves of Sufi interpretative methods. If they do not, they ...

mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Hajjah Amina Adil [Adil, Hajjah Amina]

The Raid on Buwat In the month of Rabi’ al-Awwal the Prophet had news of the return of the Meccan caravan from Sham. He gathered a company of two hundred ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-15 | Author:Idries Shah

4 The Opinion of the Scholars The successors to the sage took the book to the most famous scholars of the times, saying: ‘We have this book, and seek your ...

epub |eng | 2017-02-21 | Author:Stephen Hirtenstein

APPENDIX A The Cycle of Creation according to Ibn ʿArabī The following table represents the degrees of existence which Ibn ʿArabī formulates in chapter 198 of the Futūḥāt.1 The 28 ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2017-08-23 | Author:Jalal al-Din Rumi [Rumi, Jalal al-Din]

We look at secondary causes—why When we’ve learnt glancing from His flirting eye? Above these causes are those that are higher— Look only at those causes, which come prior. Prophets ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-08 | Author:Hüseyin Yılmaz [Yılmaz, Hüseyin]

The Shadow of God on Earth No appellative better illustrates the corollary between God’s government and the sultan’s rulership than “shadow of God.”24 Besides indiscriminate uses of the term as ...