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Un jour de ‘Arafah, il y a vingt ans, un homme appelé — et connu de tous les Fouqaras soufis du sud de la Tunisie — sous le nom de « El-‘Arif », le Connaisseur du Divin, ou l’homme de Dieu, bien qu’il n’eût ni l’apparence ni l’éloquence qu’on attend généralement d’un tel homme, m’a dit :
— Tu sais ...
One day of ‘Arafah, twenty years ago, a man known by all the Sufi fuqarā’ of southern Tunisia as “al-‘Ārif” — the Knower of the Divine, or the man of God — though he bore neither the appearance nor the eloquence we usually expect of a “man of God,” said to me:
— Do you know what happened on the day...
Aylan loves Allah and Allah loves Aylan! A true “salah”, being that the literal meaning of “salah” is connection. What a deep and true prayer indeed.
This spontaneous, natural and beautiful prayer reminds me of a story my grandmother used to tell me when I was a child, the story of the saint lalla...
When I entered our spiritual center a few days ago, after a Growing in Love session I wasn’t able to attend, my attention was caught immediately by a message written by one of the children on our whiteboard. My eyes welled with tears, and a deep sense of gratitude filled my heart.The message wrote: ...
You can find this calligraphy on many doors of mosques, dergahs, zawiyas and “centers of spiritual development” especially in the Turkish and Persian Islamic world. It consists of two parts.
1. The word Adab - often translated as 'having good manners'. We would like to translate it as 'art of livin...
The Islam I like to call "conventional" is in a "hamd" crisis today. Yet the opening of the Qur'an, this invitation to enter the dimension of Revelation, begins with "Al-hamd"... and the same is true of the fundamental ritual of the five daily meditations.
"Hamd" describes a state of deep gratitude...
