Sufism

From The Walled Garden of Hakim Sanai – Kindle Edition

Friday, February 26th, 2016

The aim has been to put a selection of Hakim Sanai’s thoughts into readable modern English, and offer it to the growing number of informed readers from all walks of life who are beginning to discover the relevance of certain traditional Middle-Eastern ideas to contemporary preoccupations in the West. This cutting and polishing process has […]

Irina Tweedie: Daughter of Fire

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

In the West the sun was setting in a sea of shimmering golden clouds. The whole world seemed to be illumined by this vivid gold, was transformed by it. I had to cross the chowraha [circus] to get to the baker’s shop. Before entering, I stopped and turned and saw that right across the chowraha […]

Hakim Sanai: The Walled Garden of Truth

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

Rumi acknowledged Hakim Sanai and Attar as his two primary inspirations, saying, “Attar is the soul and Sanai its two eyes, I came after Sanai and Attar.” Sanai wrote an enormous quantity of mystical verse, of which From The Walled Garden of Truth or The Hadiqat al Haqiqa is his master work and the first […]

Rumi’s Magnificent Gift: Who am I?

Sunday, June 20th, 2010

I am not of this world, nor of the next, nor of Paradise, nor of Hell;
I am not of Adam, nor of Eve, nor of Eden and Rizwãn.

My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless;
‘Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved. ~ Rumi

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