Salam alaikum! 🙏🏻 “It is neither their meat nor their blood that reaches God: what reaches Him is your piety. Thus He has made them subject to you, so that you may glorify God for having guided you. And give good news to those who do their best at whatever they do.”~ Holy Quran 22:37…Read more Sufi Meditation 04.07.2022
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Sufi Meditation 27.06.2022
Salam alaikum! 🙏🏻 “…We have assigned to each of you a law and a way of life. If God had wanted, He could have made all of you a single community, but instead He is testing you by means of what He has revealed to you. So compete in doing what is good. You will…Read more Sufi Meditation 27.06.2022
Sufi Meditation 13.06.2022
Salam alaikum! 🙏🏻 Anas ibn Malik reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “If the Final Hour comes while you have a sapling in your hands and it is possible to plant it before the Hour comes, you should plant it.”(Al-Adab Al-Mufrad, Hadith 479) In this week's sohbet, I…Read more Sufi Meditation 13.06.2022
Friday Reflections 10.06.2022
Salam alaikum and Jummah Mubarak! I read and discuss the story of the Seven Sleepers of the Cave, from Surah Al-Kahf in the Holy Quran, which highlights an account of seven Awliya Allah (Saints) from early Christianity remembered and revered by both Christians and Muslims alike. May Allah ﷻ forgive us and grant us to…Read more Friday Reflections 10.06.2022
Sufi Meditation 06.06.2022
Salam alaikum! 🙏🏻 “So pursue forgiveness from your Lord and a Garden as vast as the heavens and the earth is prepared for (or ‘awaits’) those who believed in God and His Messengers. That is the blessing of God which He gives to whom He wills. God is limitless in His blessings.”~ Holy Quran 57:21…Read more Sufi Meditation 06.06.2022
Sufi Meditation 30.05.2022
Salam alaikum! 🙏🏻 We said, “Adam, live with your spouse in the Heavenly Garden, and eat freely whatever you want, but do not come near this tree, or you will be unjust.”~ Holy Quran 2:35 (Safi Kaskas) In this week's sohbet, I discuss gardening and maintenance, the lessons and wisdom in Allah's everyday signs that…Read more Sufi Meditation 30.05.2022
Sufi Meditation 23.05.2022
Salam alaikum! 🙏🏻 “Read, for your Lord is most beneficent, Who taught by the pen, taught man what he did not know.”~ Holy Quran 96:3-5 (Ahmed Ali) In this week's sohbet, I discuss scholarship and grand muftis, and the central place scholarship has within Islam. We should strive in the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom,…Read more Sufi Meditation 23.05.2022
Sufi Meditation 09.05.2022
Salam alaikum! 🙏🏻 “Ask those of Our messengers We sent before you; did We ever appoint any deities besides the Merciful to be worshiped?”~ Holy Quran 43:45 (Safi Kaskas) “It is God who subjected the sea for you so that ships may sail with His approval and that you may seek His favor, and that…Read more Sufi Meditation 09.05.2022
Sufi Meditation 25.04.2022
Salam alaikum! 🙏🏻 “Every messenger whom We have sent used his own people’s language, so that he might make [the Truth] clear to them, but God lets whoever wants to stray, go astray, and guides whoever wants [to be guided]. He alone is almighty, and The Wise.”~ Holy Quran 14:4 (Safi Kaskas) In this week's…Read more Sufi Meditation 25.04.2022
Sufi Meditation 18.04.2022
Salam alaikum! 🙏🏻 “GOD is He who has created seven heavens, and, like them, [the many aspects] of the earth. Through all of them flows down from on high, unceasingly, His [creative] will, so that you might come to know that God has the power to will anything, and that God encompasses all things with…Read more Sufi Meditation 18.04.2022
Paul Salahuddin Armstrong 