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Learn from the Hindu how worship is done: Amir Khusrau

Learn also from him how worship is done.
–Amir Khusrau

Meher Murshed

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Kabir as Depicted in the Persian Sufistic and Historical Works- Dr. Qamaruddin

We read in the same work,
‘Another day Kabir was watching the wife of a gardener who

Sufinama Archive

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qavvali ek taal ka naam bhi

Akmal Hyderabadi

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A Faqir has no religion – there is only Haq and love, says Sain Zuhoor

Stop hunting for this knowledge friend
God is All, God is One.

Meher Murshed

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What is Sufism ? – Mir Valiuddin

‘ Bishr ibn al-Harith’ said : “The Sufi is he whose heart is sincere (Safa) towards God.” Another great Sufi has said: “The Sufi is he whose conduct towards God is sincere, and towards whom God’s blessing is sincere.”
But if the term Sufi were derived from ‘Safa’ the correct form would be ‘Safawi’ and not Sufi !

Islamic Culture Journal

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Sufi practices as the cause of spiritual, mental and physical healing at Chishti shrines in India and Pakistan

We can say that ritual is an observance involving a number of activities that are achieved

Mazhar Farid Chishti

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Bruce Lawrence’s Morals for the Heart: You may not see Nizamuddin but you can hear him

The journey of discovery
Amir Hasan recorded the first assembly on 27 January, 1308. Nizamuddin said: “The

Meher Murshed

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This Path is not about religion: Just faith

This Path is not about religion: Just faith

Meher Murshed

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Life, times and Sufi poetry of Shah Niyaz Ahmad Barelvi

Bekh-o-darakht wa shaakh-o-gul anboh-e-barg-o-baar ek !
(The world, which is known as the world of body and soul,

Mustaqim Parwez

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If rain can grow sugarcane, man can realize the Divine – the story of Sheikh Muhibullah

What is the difference between love and affliction?
Affliction is the pathway leading to love.

Meher Murshed

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Basant: The day hope lived in Nizamuddin Auliya again

There is a path that leads to Nizamuddin Auliya’s courtyard of love. It is always enveloped by hope and the fragrance of Spring.

Meher Murshed

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Nizamuddin Auliya: The Darwesh of Love

Nizamuddin is no longer the Guest of God, he is Mahbob-e-Ilahi, Beloved of God. For he lived only for one Love.
Nothing else mattered.

Meher Murshed

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Rang De, Amir Khusrau’s ode to Nizamuddin Auliya, by Chand Tara Orchestra moves the heart

Is it Rizwan’s lilting harmonica playing?
Is it Babar’s driving bass lines?

Meher Murshed

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Significance of Sufism for Positive Existence in the Contemporary world

 Fana-Fi-Rasool- The Sufi accepts that if something exists it is only the Rasool, Prophet Muhammad. There is no existence of any other thing.
 Fana- Fillah- The acceptance that whatever exists is the God.

Dr. Sameera Khan

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Rumi, The Silk Route and Indian Sub-continent

Haft shah’r e eshq ra Attar gasht
Ma Hunooz andar kham-e-ek kuche-yim

Akhlaq Ahmad Ahan

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From Hyderabad to Paris: A Journey of the Heart to Fazal Manzil

Hazrat Noor Inayat Khan’s Veena & Other Sacred Artifacts: -
Among the deeply moving treasures at the Fazal Manzil museum is the Veena of Hazrat

Owais Balkhi

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Malfuzat : An Analysis of the criticism on Anees-ul-Arwah

Khird Ke Paas Khabar Ke Siwa Kuch Aur Nahin
(The mind can give you nought, but what with doubt is fraught)

Aatif Kazmi

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The Prince and The Four Darweshes

The dervishes stopped by a hut. They shouted out. A one-legged man hobbled out. The dervishes

Meher Murshed

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THE KHAN KHANAN AND HIS PAINTERS, ILLUMINATORS AND CALLIGRAPHERS- M. MAHFUZ UL HAQ .

Originally it had no illustrations; subsequently many miniatures. Of very different origin were pasted over the

Islamic Culture Journal

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The Idea of India in Amir Khusrau

This is very rare in other countries
It is the effect of the cultural environment of this land….

Ali Nadeem Rezavi