To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart. Every human learns one day or another to become softer. Some accidentally, some because of disease, some suffer from human loss, some other from material loss … We all face these situations, but we can either […]
Guard your heart from heedlessness, protect your lower self from desires, guard your intellect from ignorance, and you will be admitted into the company of the vigilant. It is a duty for everyone to seek knowledge; that is, knowledge of yourself. Al Sadiq
A life without love is of no account. Don’t ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, eastern or western… divisions only lead to more divisions. Love has no labels, no definitions. It is what it is, pure and simple. Love is the […]
(see also Post: THE HOLY MONTH OF RAMADAN) Laylatul Qadr In the last decade of Ramadan we celebrated the night of Laylatul Qadr, the most important night of the Islamic calendar, the Night of Destiny (literally the night of honor and nobility, predestination, closeness) of spiritual bliss, the powerful all-night […]
Lefke, Cyprus, 21 April 1922 You have no idea how hard I’ve looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What’s the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It’s […]
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. Swami Vivekananda
SEMINARIO SUFI in Presenza con Sheikh Burhanuddin 6-8 MAGGIO Lago d’Orta (NOVARA) Scadenza tassativa per la Prenotazione, entro il: 21 APRILE “Là fuori, oltre a ciò che è giusto e sbagliato, esiste un campo immenso. Incontriamoci là.” Rumi Un’occasione per riunirci intorno al nostro Sheikh in presenza dopo tanto tempo ed […]
Don’t search for Heaven and Hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in Heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in Hell. Shams Tabrizi
The past is an interpretation. The future is an illusion. The world does not more through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness. […]
Body is purified by water, self (nafs) is purified by tears, intellect is purified by knowledge, and the soul with love. Imam Ali (as)
Are you fasting? During the Month of Ramadan, in a place near or far from here, a few young men saw an old woman sitting down eating a peach under a tree in a secluded place. They were disturbed by her open flouting of the fast, so they went to […]
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself. St . Augustine
Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy. Bediuzzaman Said Nursi
The whole universe is sum up in the Human Being. Devil is not a monster waiting to trap us, He is a voice inside. Look for Your Devil in Yourself, not in the Others. Don’t forget that the one who knows his Devil, knows his God. Shams Tabriz
My servant never ceases to draw near to Me through supererogatory works until I love him. Then, when I love him, I am his hearing through which he hears, his sight through which he sees, his hand through which he grasps, and his foot through which he walks. Prophet Muhammad […]
A day of Silence Can be a pilgrimage in itself. A day of Silence Can help you listen To the Soul play Its marvelous lute and drum. Is not most talking A crazed defense of a crumbling fort? I thought we came here To surrender in Silence, To yield to […]
Fasting is a way to save on food. Vigil and prayer is a labor for old folks. Pilgrimage is an occasion for tourism. To distribute bread in alms is something for philanthropists. Fall in love: That is doing something! Khwaja Abdullah Ansari
The religion of God is Light. His Book is Light. His Messenger is Light. The abode which He has prepared for His intimate friends glows with Light. God is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth; one of His name is Light. Ibn Qayyyim Al Jawziyya