Standing in Front of the Mirror of EternityDressed By True ExistenceLooking to Your Own RealityIn the Ocean of Oneness

One of the outstanding sources of resistance to imperial power in the Muslim world came from Sufi groups. While Sufi brotherhoods are generally known for a more quietist and mystic approach to Islam, they traditionally...

The sight of God in woman is the most perfect of all.” Ibn Arabi.

Saying of the ProphetMonkishnessNo monkery in Islam.

What you are seeking in your retreat, I see clearly in every road and alleyway.

Show a man too many camels’ bones, or show them to him too often, and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one. (Mirza Ahsan of Tabriz)

There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.

What you have to learn is how to find the unworldly in everything.

No practice exists in isolation.

Those who can’t, try: those who can, don’t have to.

He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.

Ultimately though, we are not responsible for another’s happiness. The unhappy person almost always suffers from self-inflicted pain.

He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ‘ O Glorious One, O Great One, O Mighty One’, while tiny animate creatures like flies and fish...