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“Purification and Its Stages” excerpt from The Path Sufi Practices Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 26)

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The Steps excerpt from The Path Sufi Practices Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 43)

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Excerpt from Sufism III by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 7-8)

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Impressions from India excerpt from Nightingales Under the Snow Poems by Annemarie Schimmel Foreword by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 73)

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“Devotion” excerpt from Discourses on the Sufi Path Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 86)

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Aphorism 21 from Discourses on the Sufi Path Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 111)

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“The Fire Temple of Love” excerpt from Divan-e Nurbakhsh Poems of a Sufi Master Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 40)

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Excerpt from Jesus in the Eyes of the Sufis Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 68)

“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”