Ashq (Ecstatic Love)
‘Ashq means intense love of and fondness for perfection, beauty, or physical charm. Sufis usually call this sort…
Love
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I Am Calling You, Friend
Oh the beauty in my heart I’m calling you friend, oh friend. Thousand pieces torn apart I’m calling…
Mahabba (Love)
Mahabba means fondness, tender and kind feelings, preference, and love. Love that affects and invades one’s feelings is…
Cooking and World Peace
In the summer of 2007, I traveled to Turkey for ten days as a member of an International…
The Heart
Love is like Solomon, Borne aloft on the heart, its throne.[1] The heart is humanity’s most essential feature…
The Source of Love
Love… Man and the universe was created because of love and it can only be understood through love……
Louis Massignon: A Tribute to a Pioneer in Interfaith Relations
Fifty years ago the renowned French Catholic scholar of Islam and the Islamic world, Louis Massignon, died on…
The Medicine for This Sickness: A Reaction to the Recent Violence and Killings in Nigeria
These days, we are witnessing a kind of violence never before heard of in our land. Young men…
Her Heavenly Abode… A Letter to A Friend Far Away
Sometimes, to say goodbye to someone you love is quite impossible. It is easier to say “see u…
Love in Sufi Poetry
The enduring resonance of the poetry of thirteenth-century Islamic poet, Mevlana Jalal al-Din Rumi, extends across cultures and…
Qast and Azm (Decision And Resolution)
Qast means confidence, determination, choosing, and advancing straight toward a destination, thinking and reasoning moderately and deliberately, and…
For the Sake of Autism…
The courtyard vibrated at the sound of the school bell. Immediately the playground burst into life as children…
Love for Truth
Truth means the essence and reality of a thing. It is to know clearly what a thing is,…
Story in Progress
Every year, 12 to 25 million people attempt suicide worldwide, and 1 million of them achieve what they…
Rumi: Faith, Knowledge, Reason, and Love
During a trip to Turkey in the summer of 2009, I had an opportunity to visit the tomb…