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

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“Service (khidmat bi khalq)” excerpt from The Crucible of Light Sufi Terms Illuminated Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 133)

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“Love and Desire” excerpt from Divan-e Nurbakhsh Poems of a Sufi Master Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 266)

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Excerpt from The Psychology of Sufism by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 132)

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“The Name of the Friend” excerpt from Divan-e Nurbakhsh Poems of a Sufi Master Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 174)

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Excerpt from Bhagavad Gita A New Translation Stephen Mitchell (Page 86)

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“Sincerity” excerpt from Discourses on the Sufi Path Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 28)

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“Love: The Path of Unity” excerpt from SUFI Magazine Issue 19 Autumn 1993 (Page 5)

“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”