God willing tomorrow, the 14th of the holy month of Muharram, we celebrate the birth of the founder of our tariqa Naqshbandiya, Khwaja Shah Bahauddin Naqshband, may his secret be sanctified. (See Post: TO CULTIVATE THE RIGHT INTENTION)
Monthly Archives: November 2014
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Al Basir The All-Seeing One Exalted and Glorious And Allah is All-Seer of what they do. (2:96) And Allah will be pleased with them. And Allah is All-Seer of His slaves. (3:15) And fight them until there is no more disbelief (fitnah) and the religion will all be for Allah […]
There is a big difference between belief and faith. The belief is something we take from someone, it is not our personal, real experience. A drop does not know, cannot not see, invites the other to believe in the ocean, but neither has ever diven in its waters. They are separated from each other. The belief has always limits since it arises in the mind; and the mind, we know, wants to divide, to separate, to keep us in the judgment, not in truth. This means isolation, incompatibilitiy. If […]
Mullah came upon a frowning man walking along the road to town. “What’s wrong?” he asked. The man held up a tattered bag and moaned, “All that I own in this wide world barely fills this miserable, wretched sack.” “Too bad,” said Mullah, and with that, he snatched the bag […]
A man died far from his home, and in the portion of his will which he had available for bequest, he left in these words: “Let the community where the land is situated take what they wish for themselvs, and let them give that which they wish to Arif the […]
Allah Almighty is ordering His servants to follow the steps of His friends, and to be with them. Therefore we should be like neighbors with blessed people with our physical body. Then we may be closer through our hearts. If a pipe does not connect to a tap there will […]