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To be in search of Allah is not to be disturbed by anything Apr 04, 2025
" A Zen master was once asked how long it would take to reach enlightenment.
The master said:
- Ten years.
- ‘And by working intensely at it?’
The master replied: "Twenty years, then.
 
He  who seeks peace is disturbed by everything that is not peace.
He who seeks joy is disturbed by al
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Aylan loves Allah, Allah loves Aylan (Part 2/2) Apr 04, 2025

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...

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Aylan loves Allah, Allah loves Aylan (Part 1/2) Apr 04, 2025

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: ...

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The Universal Experience of Divine Breath Apr 04, 2025
I invite you to do this exercise: take a deep breath and breathe in the sweet fragrance of the air that has just been exhaled by the people around you. Appreciate the air exhaled by your brother or sister. This air is not pollution, but an invitation to feel the Truth that we are really only One:
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There Is No Straight Path ! Apr 04, 2025
The passage from Surat al-Fatiha "ihdina sirat al-moustaqim" is often translated as "Guide us to the Straight Path"...
 
However, "moustaqim" does not really mean "straight" in the sense we understand it today, i.e. "path of rigidity and limitations"...
 
Moustaqim rather refers to a p
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Referring to God by the pronoun Hu, a pronoun beyond gender Apr 03, 2025

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...

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The crisis of the conventional islam Apr 03, 2025

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...

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Il nous faut revenir à notre nature saine Mar 13, 2025

Dans notre précédent article, nous avions démontré le lien entre jeûne et santé. Ce lien peut en réalité être élargi à un lien entre la religion au sens large et la santé, car le “sawm” désigne bien plus que le fait de jeûner… 

En effet, une religiosité saine donnera une personnalité saine, et une ...

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Jeûnez, et vous aurez la santé Mar 10, 2025

Chers amis, j'aimerais aujourd'hui prendre un moment pour contempler un aspect en particulier de cet espace de Grâce qu’est le mois de Ramadan avec vous. En effet, l’intelligence prophétique et avant cela l’Intelligence Divine dans le Qor’an nous ont décrit nombre de différentes dimensions du mois d...

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