There is an understanding in Islam that a people will be ruled according to the nature of the people. It’s a very interesting understanding and it gives a very clear view of how world politics actually work. Throughout history, at least recent history, we have had rulers who have come into situations who have tried […]
“La ilaha illallah Muhammadur Rasulullah. La ilaha illallah Muhammadan abduhu wa rasuluhu.” Muhammad was a voluntary slave. Slavery is something that the world sees as subjugation, as something that is put upon people against their will. So, the concept of voluntarily being a slave is contrary to a lot of what is understood by people.
We are experiencing in the world right now an enormous amount of difficulty, an enormous amount of grief, an enormous amount of anger, an enormous amount of revenge, an enormous amount of self-righteousness and an enormous amount of conflict between people, between ideologies, between ways to approach things. In essence, the world is bristling. Everybody
There is an old Chinese curse that says, “May you live in interesting times”. Some people might wonder why that’s a curse, and the answer is quite simply that when you live in the midst of tumultuous times, those incidents in the world draw you into them, make you part of them. They pull you
Most of you know the early history of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen as far as recent history, but I want to go over a little bit of it. In the mid-to-late 30’s someone met him outside of a city called Jaffna in Sri Lanka and they recognized that there was something extraordinary about him, and that he
Recently in the news people have been hacking emails, and the emails have been embarrassing to some people which leads us to the old adage, “Never put anything in writing.” And there are lots of reasons for not putting anything in writing. But that is with the world of illusion, but in the world of
#187 We Must Have Sincerity To Progress Spiritually Read More »
In order to create an internal connection with haqq, with reality, we must be sincere in a profound way because without sincerity we are skirting the surface of reality, because without sincerity, we’re not really looking to make that connection, we’re just playing at making that connection. And what is it that stops us from
Anyone who has spent time in Sufism has spent time with the vocabulary of Sufism, knows the word “insan” and the word “insan kamil” and understands that the intention within Sufism is to go from insan to insan kamil; “insan” being the word for a human and “insan kamil” meaning perfected human. The path from
This week we celebrated Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is a non-denominational national holiday in the United States that was started during one of the terms of George Washington when he declared that we should set a date aside, every year, and make it a holiday wherein we give thanks for all that we have been given, and
There’s a story of a woodsman, a laborer, who chopped wood for a living, and every day he would go and chop his wood. He would be paid a few rupees for the day’s work. He would come home to his little shack where he lived alone, and on the way home he would always
