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love & enemy!! 2007-08-25 09:11:00 A punjabi Sufi poet said:Dushman Mare Ta Khushi Na Kariye Sajna Vi Mar Jana EhDegar De Din Gaya Mohammad Ohruk Nu Dub Jana Eh(Muhammad Bukhsh)Do not be happy over enemy's death, because somedays friends would also die!The day has went, the twilight will also go (?) ... Amp

Quotation: Human love & real love 2007-08-23 09:26:00 Ordinary human love is capable of raising man to the experience of real love.(Jami)Source: "The Way of The Sufi", by Idries ShahRelevant Post:why-some-mystics-did-wordly-love-ishq-e-haqiqi ... Amp

The beloved 2007-08-23 09:15:00 One went to the door of the beloved and knocked. A voice asked: 'Who is there?'He answered: 'It is I.'The voice said: 'There is no room here for me and thee.' The door was shut.After a year of solitude and deprivation this man returned to the door of the beloved. He knocked.A voice from within asked. 'Who is here?'Tha man said: 'It is thou.'The door was opened for him.(Rumi)Source: "The Way of The Sufi", by Idries ShahNote: Errors & omissions are expectedRelevant Post:selflessness & service ...

"Hypocrite" 2007-08-23 09:07:00 Prayer for the DeadSufian Thauri heard that a funeral was to take place, and he followed the coffin. He prayed at the graveside.After the service, people began to say what a good man the deceased had been.'I should not have prayed for that man', said Sufian, 'for when you hear people speak well of a man, it is generally because he is a hypocrite, whether he knew it or not. If a man is not a hypocrite, there are always many who do not speak well of him.'Source: "The Way of The Sufi", by Idries Shah ...

States and Jackals 2007-08-23 08:57:00 The jackal thinks that he has feasted well, when he has in fact only eaten the leavings of the lion. I transmit the science of producing 'states'. This , used alone, causes damage. He will lead man to worship 'States', until they will almost be unable to return to the Sufi Path.(Abdul-Qadir of Gilan)Source: "The Way of The Sufi", by Idries ShahRelevant Post:Three Forms of Knowledge ...

Al-Maktub or Written 2007-08-21 07:12:00 There was a good text written in urdu language at backside of a Pakistani truck:"NA WAQT SE PEHLEY, NA MUQADDAR SE ZIYADA"Niether before the time (fixed in fate), Nor more than what fixed (in the fate). ...

Three Forms of Knowledge 2007-08-21 05:36:00 ISLAMIC MYSTICISM (TASAWWUF)image source: flickr photosText source: "The Way of The Sufi", by Idries ShahIbn El-Arabi of Spain instructed his followers in this most ancient dictum:There are there forms of knowledge. The first is intellectual knowledge, which is in fact only information and the collection of facts, and the use of these to arrive at further intellectual concepts. This is intellectualism.Second comes the knowledge of states, which includes both emotional feelings and strange states of being in which man thinks that he has perceived something supreme but cannot avail himself of it. This is emotionalism.Third comes real knowledge, which is called the knowledge of Reality. In this form, man can perceive what is right, what is true, beyond the boundaries of thought and sense. Scholastics and scientists concentrate upon the first form of knowledge. Emotionalists and experientialists use the second form. Others use the two combined, or either one alternatively.But people who at ...

Quotation 2007-08-18 03:06:00 Stop boasting of intellect and learing. For here (in Tasawwuf or Sufi way) intellect is hampering and learning is stupidity!Source: Idries Shah's "The Way of The Sufi" ...

Lost but faithful.. 2007-08-18 02:16:00 At a little hut (cheap restaurant) near Margala Hills, Shamsher was telling me the strange story.Once upon a time, a man came back to his native village after living for a long time in the city. The train stopped at the little desolate station at a late hour of night. The man disembarked the train. There was complete loneliness. The village was at a little distance from the station. So, the man decided to pass the night at a dilapidated little mosque near the railway station. He entered the mosque and lay down to sleep.After sometime, he felt as if someone was entering the mosque. He felt the strange man’s voice. He surprised to listen his voice reciting niyya for entering the Fajar (morning) prayer at that hour of night. But he felt as if morning has begun. After sometime time the strange man said niyya for Zuhr (noon) prayer. And the visitor felt as if noon has come and the sunlight entering the mosque. In this way, the man said payers of 5 different times and the time changed in a ...

The perception of the madman 2007-08-16 08:48:00 From Idries Shah's, "The Way of The Sufi"There was a certain madman who would not take part in congregational prayers. One friday, after much difficulty, people induced him to attend.But as soon as the leader of the prayer started to recite, the madman started to bellow like an ox.The people assuming that he was only reverting to madness, but at the same time desirous of helping him, challanged him afterwards:'Have you no idea of God, that you should make a noise like an animal in the middle of a believing congregation?'But the madman said:'I was only doing what the prayer-leader was doing. When he intoned, he was buying an ox, and I spoke like an ox!'When this strange remark was reported to the leader of the prayer, he confessed:'When I was saying GOD IS GREATEST OF ALL, I was in fact thinking about my form. And when I got to the phrase PRAISE TO GOD, I thought that I could buy an ox. It was at that moment that I heard something bellowing'Read related post ...

Why? 2007-08-08 05:46:00 Shaffo was telling about a Sufi tradition of unknown source.Once Prophet Moses asked God: O Allah, why not there is prosperity everywhere instead of poverty, and youth instead of old age, and life forever instead of death.God Replied: If there were prosperity everywhere and no poverty, then who would thank (shukr) me !?if there were youth and no old age, then how one would know about humility (ijz) !?if there were eternal life and no death, then who would remember (zikr) me !?(Unknown Source: Errors & ommissions are expected) ...

Sufi Graciousness: Sincerity & Love 2007-08-04 12:17:00 Moulana Rumi's Ruba'i:The sufi opens his hands to the universeand gives away each instant, free.Unlike someone who begs on the street for money to survive,a dervish begs to give you his life.http://www.rumi.org.uk/rubaiyat.htm ... Amp

Hunger for knowledge or indigestion of teachings! 2007-08-03 13:02:00 FULL UP(from Idries Shah's book, 'Wisdom of the Idiots')A man came to Bahaudin Naqshband, and said:'I have travelled from one teacher to another, and I have studied many Paths, all of which have given me great benefits and many advantages of all kinds.'I wish to be enrolled as one of your disciples, so that I may drink from the well of knowledge, and thus make myself more and more advanced in Tariqa, the Mystic Way.Bahaudin, instead of answering the question directly, called for dinner to be served. When the dish of rice and meat stew was brought, he pressed plateful after plateful upon his guest. The he gave him fruits and pastries, and then he called for more pilau (rice), and more and more courses of food, vegetables, salads, confitures.At first the man was flattered, and as Bahaudin showed pleasure at every mouthful he swallowed, he ate as much as he could. When his eating slowed down, the Sufi Sheikh seemed very annoyed, and to avoid his displeasure, the unfortunate man ate v ...

Desire end? 2007-07-31 12:34:00 THE KASHKULFrom Idries Shah's 'Wisdom of the Idiots'It is related that a dervish once stopped a king in the street. The king said: 'How dare you, a man of no account, interrupt the progress of your sovereign?'The dervish answered:'Can you be a sovereign if you can not even fill my kashkul, the begging bowl?'He held out his bowl, and the king ordered it to be filled with gold.But, no sooner was the bowl seen to be full of coins than they disappeared, and the bowl seemed to be empty again.Sack after sack of gold was brought, and still the amazing bowl devoured coins.'Stop!' shouted the king, 'for this trickster is emptying my treasury!'"To you I am emptying your treasury,' said the dervish, 'but to others I am merely illustrating a truth.''And the truth?' asked the king.'The truth is that, the bowl is the desires of man, and the gold what man is given. There is no end to man's capacity to devour, without being in any way changed. See the bowl has eaten nearly all your w ...

Silence 2007-07-30 11:31:00 Abu Said Abul-Khair's PoetryHow much longer?Chiseling and polishing the wordsHow much longer?Your scattered arrows missing the targetIf you have ever readA single page from the book of silenceMuch you had laughedAt the vanity of what was said and heardhttp://www.untiredwithloving.org/abulkair.htmlQoshairi Manifest(Poetry)While we are apart I think about what to saySolidifying the reasoning behind every wordI forgot everything when we are face to faceIn our conversation talking nonsense all over(When the Sufi is afar from his Beloved he thinks about many things to say but once facing slight gesture of the Divine Presence Sufi is lost, wordless & bedazzled)***(Poetry)I see how the words adorn you my young ladSilence proffers him much once he is quietWords & conversations bring so many deathsSo the speakers wish they would have been silent***(Some selected text)Some person said, "Silence is the language of wisdom".Another person said, "Learn Silence as you learned speech, so that if ...