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Excerpt from The Psychology of Sufism (Del wa Nafs) Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 117)

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“The Light of Presence” excerpt from SUFI Magazine Issue 93 Summer 2017 (Page 7)

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“The Pure Heart of the Sufi” excerpt from The Path Sufi Practices Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 57)

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Aphorism 27 from Discourses on the Sufi Path Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Pages 117)

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“Love in Sufism” excerpt from The Path Sufi Practices Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 69)

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“Truths of Love 55” from Divan-e Nurbakhsh Poems of a Sufi Master Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Pages 385)

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Excerpt from the Bhagavad Gita A New Translation Stephen Mitchell (Page 117)

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“Climate Change A Case for Contentment” excerpt from SUFI Magazine Issue 92 Winter 2017 (Page 8)

“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”