Al-Kabir The Greatest Exalted and Glorious The Knower of the unseen and the seen, the Greatest, the Highest (13:9) And what they invoke besides Him, is falsehood. And verily, Allah – he is the Highest, the Greatest. (22:62) That is because Allah, He is the Truth, and that which they […]
Monthly Archives: January 2015
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In order to guide the disciple the Sheikh should know only one thing: where he is in spiritual terms. Only if it knows his position, he can lead him to his destination. If you cannot see, he may even know all the classics and the entire Koran by heart, but this will not be of any help […]
“Nasrudin, how come every morning, some people are traveling in one direction, and some in others?” Nasrudin: “Because if everyone traveled in the same direction, the Earth would tip over!“
Be still! Be quiet! Find acquaintance with silence. Go inside, delve into your heart. Take a day off from the clamour. The soul is here for its own joy. Rumi
This is a story of the lake and the three big fish that were in it, one of them intelligent, another half-intelligent, and the third, stupid. Some fisherman came to the edge of the lake with their nets. The three fish saw them. The intelligent fish decided at once to […]
The Lord of Heavens likes to see his servants happy and in pleasure. When He is looking and seeing His servants happy He grants them much more reasons of happiness. When one drop from the Lord’s Pleasure Oceans is coming on a person, this is making the Lord of Heavens happy, in pleasure. He is […]
Al-‘Aliyy The Sublime Exalted and Glorious His Throne doth extend over the Heavens and the earth and He feeleth no fatigue in guarding and preserving them, for He is the Most High, the Supreme (in Glory). (2:255) We said: “Fear Not! For Thou indeed hast the Upper Hand.” (20:68) They […]
Nasrudin loaded a barrel of cherries on his donkey, and went off to the bazaar to sell them. On his way, a group of about a dozen children noticed him, and were elated to see all the cherries he was carrying. They began dancing and singing in anticipation of eating […]
As three travelers, two scholars and a dervish, crossed the mountains of the Himalaya, they discussed the importance of putting into practice everything they had learned on a spiritual plane. They we so engrossed in their conversation that it was only late at night that they realized that all they […]
The Seal of Prophets, in his holy verse, is saying: Tafakkur sa`atin khayrun min `ibadati saba`in sannah. To sit down and to think about the realities that you are in, about the realities that are inside of yourself and outside of yourself, is more important then to pray 70 years. Because that […]
On the East side of Casa Rabbani in Amelia, Italy, on the top of the hill there is an abandoned old beautiful villa. The four brothers who inherited it never agreed about the division of the property compound with its land, vineyards and olive gardens. So since many years the villa […]
Ash-Shakur The Appreciative Exalted and Glorious Why should Allah punish you if you have thanked Him and believed in Him? And Allah is Ever All-Appreciative, All-Knowing. (4:147) That He may pay them their wages in full, and give them more out of His Grace. Verily He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Ready […]