| “The experience of beauty paves the way for the experience of love.” | Page 69

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“Reason and Love (‘aql wa ‘ishq)” excerpt from The Crucible of Light Sufi Terms Illuminated Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 205)

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Excerpt from The Psychology of Sufism by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 71)

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“The Basis of Creation” excerpt from Divan-e Nurbakhsh Poems of a Sufi Master Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 81)

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“The Results and Fruit of Dhikr” excerpt from The Path Sufi Practices Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 139)

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Excerpt from The Prophet Kahlil Gibran (Page 28)

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“Love” excerpt from Discourses on the Sufi Path Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 21-22)

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“Love in Sufism” excerpt from The Path Sufi Practices Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 70)

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“I Say Haqq, Haqq, Cry Hu, Hu” excerpt from Divan-e Nurbakhsh Poems of a Sufi Master Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 171)

“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”