| “The experience of beauty paves the way for the experience of love.” | Page 54

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“The House of Sincerity and Purity” excerpt from Divan-e Nurbakhsh Poems of a Sufi Master Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 145)

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

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

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

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“Aphorism 2” from Discourses on the Sufi Path (Page 92)

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Excerpt from The Prophet Khalil Gibran (Page 64)

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“Resumption of the story of Zo’l-Nun” excerpt from Rumi The Masnavi Book Two A New Translation by Jawid Mojaddedi (Page 86)

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“The Experience of Beauty and the Sublime” excerpt from SUFI Magazine Issue 94 Winter 2018 (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”