Every time you have good, holy thoughts, you get closer to the liberation and every time you have thoughts towards this world, the people, your relationships, your problems, you bind yourself to this world and you close yourself in the prison of your thoughts. Liberation is to think of the […]
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What is happiness? You have to understand its nature: it is an ego-centered desire. It is always linked to an event, which brings us a personal benefit or avoids something that harms us. It has to come and go. All aspects that enslave us, bind us. Happiness is not permanent: […]
In many traditions they use to cover the head to protect the spiritual centers. When you practice, the spiritual forces located around the head tend to rise to the top. The turban holds them. The turban is also a remembrance of death, it symbolizes it by the shroud, as well […]
To wear a ring on the middle finger of the right hand is sunnah, the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, used to wear it. The meaning of the ring is that you cannot take a piece of silver, to mould it as it is and to put it on […]
“This tiny man has the heart light as a rose petal…. and when he passes by you feel a delicate breeze that shakes you in the depth…. and then something floods from your small heart… and you cry like a child that was lost and has been found again…” (Abdul Fattah) […]
“There was a time when Bukhara was the greatest spiritual center of Asia. Bukhara, Uzbekistan. Today madrassas transformed into hotels remains for few tourists, a nearly deserted mosque, a large university, shadow of what Islam was once in those areas, when Avicenna was crossing those roads teaching the doctrine of the […]
Look as long as you can at the friend you love. No matter whether that friend is moving away from you or coming back toward you. Rumi
The way of love is not a subtle argument. The door there is devastation. Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall, and falling, they’re given wings. Rumi
You need to become a pen In the Sun´s hand. We need for the earth to sing Through our pores and eyes. The body will again become restless Until your soul paints all its beauty Upon the sky. Don´t tell me, dear ones, That what Hafiz says is not true, […]
One day Mulla Nasruddin went to the market and bought a fine piece of meat. On the way home he met a friend who gave him a special recipe for the meat. Mullah Nasruddin was very happy. But then, before he got home, a large crow stole the meat from […]
One day Mulla Nasruddin went to market to buy new clothes. First he tested a pair of trousers. He didn’t like the trousers and he gave back them to the shopkeeper. Then he tried a robe which had same price as the trousers. Mulla Nasruddin was pleased with the robe […]
In the Sufi path there is an individual practice and a community practice. The main motto of our way is: ” Our path is based on gathering and all the goodness comes by the congregation .” You are meeting with a group not because you love to meet the people there, for […]
How to become a dervish? Simple, by falling in love with one of them. The formal act of initiation is the bayat, the pact that you tighten taking the hand of the Shaykh. If the disciple falls in love with the Shaykh he wants to bind himself, to chain to him, then […]
Ar-Rahim The Merciful Exalted and Glorious He is the One Who Accepts Repentance, the Most Merciful. (2:54) Truly, You are the One Who Accepts Repentance, the Most Merciful. (2:128) I am the One Who Forgives and Accepts Repentance, the Most Merciful. (9:118) Tell My slaves that truly I am the […]
In the Sufi tradition it is possible and advisable to fast during the three days of full moon (the day before, the day and the day after). The big daily fasting is happening though during the days of Ramadan. How to fast? It means do not eat, drink or smoke […]
Why now you like to make us singing, Shaykh Burhanuddin? Because now everyone think and think too much while they should sing and sing. Singing is a way to purify ourselves from all the loads we accumulated in our lives, from all our past actions, past thoughts, past emotions. We […]
