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

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“Our Celebration” excerpt from Divan-e Nurbakhsh Poems of a Sufi Master Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 17)

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“God’s Benevolence and Wrath” excerpt from Discourses on the Sufi Path Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 75)

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Excerpt from The Psychology of Sufism Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 35)

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“The Results and Fruit of Dhikr” excerpt from The Path Sufi Practices Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 138)

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Excerpt from Sufism V by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 11)

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Excerpt from Sufism V by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 11)

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Excerpt from Bhagavad Gita A New Translation by Stephen Mitchell (Page 78)

“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”