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“The Master” excerpt from The Path Sufi Practices Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Pages 104-105)

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Excerpt from Bhagavad Gita A New Translation Stephen Mitchell (Page 109)

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“The Necessity of Having a Master” excerpt from The Path Sufi Practices Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 115)

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“Birth (weladat)” excerpt from SUFI Symbolism Volume Five Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 168)

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“Life (zendagi)” excerpt from SUFI Symbolism Volume Five Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 163)

Posted on September 21, 2020 by michigansufi

“Friendship” excerpt from SUFI Magazine Issue 82 Winter 2012 (Page 8)

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“Friendship” excerpt from SUFI Magazine Issue 82 Winter 2012 (Page 10)

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“Don’t Acquire!” excerpt from Divan-e Nurbakhsh Poems of a Sufi Master Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Pages 84)

“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”