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That is a typical #sufi one of the #istanbul #dervishes with #gasmask
They are very present in the city
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Teenagers in Palestine and Iran could have started a very simple movement: we want what Malala wants.
First, it puts women's voice in charge against the established clergy. Which opens the doors to the pile of #Sufi content like #FWakeSufi #ElifŞafak Elif Şafak as a morality and rule teacher of expanded compassion. Phase out Shia and Sunni and go all Sufi (which is world-compatible Islam)
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One of the largest #Bektashi communities outside of #Albania is here in #Michigan. Many came here when their faith was banned by Enver Hoxha's communist government. They're a fascinating #Sufi sect, I've always wanted to learn more. It will be interesting to see how this "microstate" evolves. #Religion #Islam #Spirituality https://www.euronews.com/2024/09/21/albania-plans-to-create-sovereign-micro-state-for-sufi-muslim-order
The Bhakti and Sufi movements developed in parallel and had significant interactions and influences on each other in medieval India.
Rather than one emerging as a reaction to the other, they evolved concurrently in a shared cultural, religious and political climate that was conducive to the growth of both.
Inayat Khan, born OTD in 1882, founded the #Sufi Order in the West in 1914 and taught Universal #Sufism https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/turkey/konya/?s=mb #travel #history
Bob Cromwell: Travel, Linux, CybersecurityKonya — Rumi's Tomb, Sufiism, and Seljuk ArchitectureKonya is the home of the poet Rumi, founder of Sufiism and the whirling dervishes. Seljuk architecture makes for a Central Asian atmosphere in the ancient city.
25th May 7.30pm
vocal ensemble, #Eklektika, join Rita Woolhouse (Cello), Leaf Klevjer (Tanpura) & Matt Bourne (Middle Eastern Percussion) in a fusion mass that brings together #Sufi & #Gregorian chant with the words of Palestinian human rights award-winning poet, #MahmoudDarwish.
https://www.eklektika.com.au/event-details/music-and-peace-3
Benefit for Docs without borders
https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/our-response-israel-gaza-war
EklektikaMusic and Peace | Eklektika"In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language" - Henry Thoreau.
All proceeds for this event will go to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders.
By night we hasten in darkness.
A fusion of sacred chant from the #Taize and #Moroccan #Sufi traditions.
Recorded as part of the #intercultural #AngloMoroccan project, 'From Shore to Shore'.
#fusion #worldmusic #youtube #youtubevideo #harp #lute #soprano #singer #drum #recorder #violin #bass #interfaith #earlymusic #youtubechannel #morocco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBOw5dLsKH8&list=UULFpQK1ehIIykjVNE94Eu4Hqw&ab_channel=Passamezzo
‘O laggard, busy with the mere shape of things.
Leave off the pleasures of seductive form.
The love of the face of the Rose has merely driven thorns into your heart.
It is your master.
However beautiful the Rose, the beauty vanishes in a few days...
If the Rose's smile awakens your desire, it is only to hold you ceaselessly in sorrow...
leave the Rose and the redness.’
— Attar, Parliament of the Birds
‘First fight 13 enemies you cannot see:
egoism,
arrogance,
conceit,
selfishness,
greed,
lust,
intolerance,
anger,
lying,
cheating,
gossiping
and slandering.
If you can master and destroy them, then you will be ready to fight the enemy you can see.’
— Al-Ghazali
@bookstodon #Islam #books #bookstodon #ethics #sufi #spirituality #MayThe4thBeWithYou #thursday #wisdom #faith #religion #psychology #philosophy #reading
The saint Shibli one day went to see Nuri; he found him sitting so still in contemplation that not a hair of his body moved.
He asked him, 'From whom did you learn to practice such fixity of contemplation?'
Nuri answered, 'From a cat which I saw waiting at a mouse-hole in an attitude of even greater fixity than this.'
—Ghazali Alchemy of Happiness, #translation C. Field
#meditation #mysticism #Islam #prayer #catsofmastodon #cats #wisdom #quote #books #bookstodon @bookstodon #sufi
I just finished this remarkable book:
Tales of a Modern Sufi
It is a collection of sublime stories that have the whiff of death about them.
Each story is like a dream, yielding symbols and enchantments.
I highly recommend it!
@bookstodon #bookstodon #books #mysticism #sufi #fiction
'He who sees the Reality from His standpoint, in Him by Him, is a gnostic.'
— Ibn Arabi (1165 C.E. — 1240)
#Art : Agostino Arrivabene
#gnosticism #mysticism #spirituality #sufi #Islam #philosophy #books @bookstodon #SilentSunday #Sunday #poetry
Thus, let us praise those who criticize us, so their friends will think, “It is our friends who are at odds with the Sufis, since the Sufis always speak well to our friends.”
— Rumi
@bookstodon #books #bookstodon #rumi #sufi #spirituality #wednesday
"Sometimes you will find more benefit in states of need than you will find in fasting or ritual prayer.
States of need are gift-laden carpets.
If you want gifts to come your way, then perfect the spiritual poverty you have.
"Alms are only for the poor."
— Ibn Ata'Allah
'Who knows the meaning and reality of a thing Sufis call 'arif (gnostic), and one who knows merely the verbal expression without keeping the spiritual reality they call 'alim'.
For this reason, when the Sufis wish to disparage a rival they call him danishmand (possessing knowledge).'
—al-Hujwiri
#sufi #mysticism #Islam #gnosticism #ramadan #faith #esoteric #books #bookstodon #book #SilentSunday @bookstodon #Sunday #wisdom #light #reality #religion #spirituality #life #today #JoinIn
In a story involving the #Sufi holy fool, Nasruddin, it's said he was suspected of smuggling. But the inspector at the border would always look into the bags being carried by Nasruddin's donkeys and, time after time, he found nothing in them but straw.
One day years later, when both men were retired, the inspector met up with Nasruddin, and he asked him, "Were you in fact smuggling back then?"
"Yes, I was," Nasruddin told him.
"What were you smuggling?"
"Donkeys."