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“General and Particular Friendship with God” excerpt from SUFI Symbolism Volume III Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Pages 66-67)

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Aphorism 14 from Discourses on the Sufi Path Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 104)

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

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“My Lord” excerpt from Divan-e Nurbakhsh Poems of a Sufi Master Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Pages 31)

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“Love Breeze” poem from SUFI Magazine Issue 99 July 2020 (Page 5)

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Article excerpt from SUFI Magazine Issue 98 Winter 2020 (Page 15)

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“Divine Love” excerpt from SUFI Magazine Issue 81 Summer 2011 (Page 10)

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“The Boisterous Love” excerpt from SUFI Magazine Issue 95 Summer 2018 (Page 9)

“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”