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

Posted on June 18, 2018 by michigansufi

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

Posted on June 18, 2018 by michigansufi

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

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“Response to a Wayfarer” excerpt from Divan-e Nurbakhsh Poems of a Sufi Master Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 306)

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Excerpt from Dogs from a Sufi Point of View Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 38)

Posted on May 11, 2018 by michigansufi

Poem by Dr. Alireza Nurbakhsh June 2015

Posted on May 11, 2018 by michigansufi

“The Quatrains” excerpt from Divan-e Nurbakhsh Poems of a Sufi Master Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 326)

Posted on May 11, 2018 by michigansufi

“The Experience of Beauty and the Sublime” excerpt from SUFI Magazine Issue 94 (Page 9)

Posted on May 11, 2018 by michigansufi

“Sin and Merit” excerpt from Discourses on the Sufi Path Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 54)

“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”