| “The experience of beauty paves the way for the experience of love.”

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“Dream Interpretation” excerpt from SUFI Magazine Issue 97 Summer 2019 (Page 9)

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“The Master-Disciple Relationship Revisited” excerpt from SUFI Magazine Issue 79 Summer/Autumn 2010 (Pages 5-6)

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“The Banquet of the Tavern of Ruin” excerpt from Divan-e Nurbakhsh Poems of a Sufi Master Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Pages 5-6)

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“Caring for Others Sufism and Altruism” excerpt from SUFI Magazine Issue 84 Winter 2013 (Page 10)

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“One Breath” excerpt from Divan-e Nurbakhsh Poems of a Sufi Master Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 28)

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“Beyond Us versus Them” excerpt from SUFI Magazine Issue 98 Winter 2020 (Page 11)

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“Kindness towards Others (*shafaqat bar khalq*)” excerpt from The Crucible of Light Sufi Terms Illuminated Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Pages 172)

Posted on December 13, 2020 by michigansufi

“The Illusion of Self” excerpt from SUFI Magazine Issue 85 Summer 2013 (Page 10)

“It is said that, when asked how many ways there are from creation to God, Abu Sa’id replied, “According to one account, there are a thousand ways, according to another, there are as many as there are particles in existence, but the shortest, the best, and the easiest way to God is to bring comfort to someone else.”

It is in the same context that Rumi writes:

For God’s pleasure should you do your service;

What care have you whether you bear peoples’ praise or censure?

Or, in Sa’di’s words:

Service to people is the whole of worship:

The worship of God is not done

by rosary beads, robes of piety or prayer carpets.”

-from The Key Features of Sufism, Dr Javad Nurbakhsh

“Service to People is the Whole of Worship”