To my dismay I have witnessed people from the #SEO industry spreading #xenophobia and #Islamophobia again.

They are spreading myths about #Islam being hateful per se.

I recommend to read Elif Shafak's beautiful book about #sufi Muslim poet #Rumi in that context: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6642715-the-forty-rules-of-love

It's called aptly 40 Rules of Love to reflect the true nature of that religion.

FIY: I will not tolerate racist fear-mongering and hate speech in my circles. Anybody guilty of it will get unfollowed or banned.

uh oh I feel a #sufi adventure coming on

TGIF. Wishing you a wonderful #Caturday Eve. 🙏❤️🕊

Bowl of Saki for today - #Sufi

Life is what it is, you cannot change it; but you can always change yourself.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#NP: #NowPlaying:

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Qawwal & Party - 'Shahbaaz' (1991)

One more album by legendary #NusratFatehAliKhan, full of powerfully performed #Qawwali, #Sufi devotional and hypnotisingly rhythmic music, and again produced by #MichaelBrook. CDRW16

“When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.”

― Idries Shah, The Book of the Book

"Wenn du den Unterschied zwischen dem Behälter und dem Inhalt erkennst, wirst du Wissen haben."

#IdriesShah #Sufi

“There is a pair of opposites in all things, and in each there exists the spirit of the opposite: in man the quality of woman, in woman the spirit of man, in the sun the form of the moon, in the moon the light of the sun. The closer one approaches reality, the nearer one arrives at unity.” - Hazrat Inayat Khan #sufi

#NP: #NowPlaying:

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - 'Mustt Mustt' (1990)

Stunning album by Pakistan #Sufi devotional music #Qawwali singer #NusrathFatehAliKhan. A rousing, uplifting and mesmerising mixture of traditional and modern music, produced by #MichaelBrook.

@Czerion

Gibt ne Sufi Geschichte, für die der Platz nicht reicht...

"Warum machen Sufis sich lustig über die großen Taten, den Heldenmut, die Geduld und die Großherzigkeit, die das Erbe und der Glanz der Araber sind?"

"Diese Eigenschaften sollten das absolute Minimum sein, und nicht das Großartigste, das ein Mensch erreichen kann. Das ist sein Ausgangspunkt. Er sollte sich schämen, dass er nicht immer würdevoll war, und er sollte dankbar sein, dass er großer Dinge fähig ist."

#Sufi

@aks Specifically right-wing #Christianity. I don't see them shoehorning much #Buddhism, #Wicca or #Sufi mysticism in anywhere.

Hell, I don't even see them shoehorning in the more left-wing #Christian bits about #Jesus saying to feed the poor and the hungry, or that it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven.

@jerry

Dear Friends of #AITA

Am I The Asshole?
Always I am the Asshole, no need to ask Am I. I Am!

Had to look up the acronym. An excellent reminder for #BlameWorthy #Sufi
https://wisdomtavern.com/malamatiyya-the-path-of-blame/

you know it makes sense :ablobdancer:

Who ate her? :ablobpainrain:

Today's poem:

I am Drunk at the Fountain of Kawthar
- by Rumi

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/720182698444996608/i-am-drunk-at-the-fountain-of-kawthar?source=share

#rumi #mevlana #sufi #poetry #intoxication #islam #mysticism #paradise

Today's photo is actually a video. Shot on June 13th, in Sheffield, it is a short video from a Qawwali concert given by Imran Aziz Mian and Party.

#ImranAzizMian #qawwali #sheffield #music #sufi #islam #harmonium #tabla

@Lobstered @JaritzaFloresG94 I was being interviewed for a spot on a TV quiz show and was asked what my hobbies were. I replied “I like silence.” Long pause and then request to change my description which they wouldn’t be able to use. So I said “My favourite pastime is stillness.” So. No, the freak didn’t make it to the show. I have studied with high-ranking #Buddhist and #Sufi teachers. They practiced stillness and meditation for most of the day. And we’re ridiculously happy for the rest of it.

Isn't it strange that some long term Buddhists are not enlightened … :ablobdancer:

Why have they been meditating if it is not working? 🫵
What is wrong with our teacher, teaching, practice. Are they enlightened? 🙏
Have they shared enlightenment or are too humble?🤫
What siddhi (internal powers) have been developed? 🪬

What is wrong with your meditation?☸️

Fortunately my answers are not required … :ablobsurpriseblush:

#newbuddhist #buddhism #zen #tantra #sufi

A simple line that leapt out of a #Sufi text:

'The sun [like spiritual truths] shines on all things but affects them differently according to their degree: it burns or illumines or dissolves or nurtures.'

—al-Hujwiri

#spirituality #truth

In subtle matters of the heart, the guardian of the riddle must speak in riddles.

T.J. Winter puts it this way in his #book on #Sufi #mystic Ghazali:

"Because of the danger of misunderstanding by those who understand only outward #words & whose hearts are still unreceptive to mystical allusions, the full doctrine of the #soul must remain veiled, to be spoken of only in the closed circles of those who will be sure to understand it in ways that cannot clash with formal #theology."

#spirituality

‘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

If you could get rid of yourself just once,
The secret of secrets
Would open to you.
The face of the unknown,
Hidden beyond the universe
Would appear on the
Mirror of your perception.

Rumi (Muhammad Jalal ud Din Balkhi)

#rumi #sufi #mysticism #mystery #faith

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

'The candle is not there to illuminate itself.'

— Nawab Jan-FishanKhan

🕯

'A good teacher is like a candle -- it consumes itself, to light the way for others.'

—Anon

( #art by Fran Carneros )

#spirituality #wisdom #quote #inspiration #meditation #humanity #sufi #motivation #mayday #Monday #teaching #education #light #life