#sufisim

"Abu`l Hasn Fushanja said, 'Today Sufism is a name without a reality, but formerly it was a reality without a name,' i.e. in the time of the Companions and the Ancients -- may God have mercy on them -- this name did not exist, but the reality thereof was in everyone; now the name exists, but not the reality. That is to say, formerly the practice was known and the pretence unknown, but nowadays the pretence is known and the practice unknown.'" —— Hazrat Ali Hujwiri, Kashf al-Mahjub (trans. Nicholson, with minor edits), #chasinglight #fujifilm #fujixseries #fujix #sufisim #islam (at Wazir Khan Mosque وزیر خان مسجد)

We pass through five stages: the pre-earthly stage, earthly life, life in the Intermediary Realm, Resurrection and Judgment, and the final abode, as beautifully described by psychiatrist and Sufi author Dr. Mostafa al-Badawi in his book Man and the Universe: An Islamic Perspective. It should be understood that there is no discontinuity between these successive stages, for as one dies, or departs from one realm, one instantaneously enters the next—birth and death being two sides of the same coin. We have but one chance to purify our inner selves, detach from the transient, and attain closeness to our Creator.

قلبِ سلیم ایسے قلب کو کہا جاتا ہے جو تحقیق و پہچان کی راہ پر گامزن ہو اور شوقِ دیدارِ الٰہی رکھتا ہو۔ اگر کوئی اپنے قلب سے نفس کے تمام ناسور قتل کرنے کی ٹھان لے اور خدائے بزرگ و برتر کی جانب سے توفیق پا کر معرفت و دیدارِ الٰہی تک پہنچ جائے تو ایسے قوی و مضبوط روحانی قلب کو قلبِ سلیم کہا بم جائے گا

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Rumi + Shams, @neonalchemy

#mevlana #konya #turbe #tomb #sufisim #iphone6 #instagood #panaroma #huzur (Konya Mevlana Türbesi)

Rumi, Rubaiyat 1131, trans. Kabir Helminski