Islam

Friday Reflections 27.11.2020

Salam alaikum and Jummah Mubarak! Reading is good and beneficial to our hearts and souls, especially reading the works of scholars and saints. We may even find things written long ago that apply even more today then when first written. This week I read and discuss The Thirty-Third Discourse in The Removal of Cares (Jalā…Read more Friday Reflections 27.11.2020

Weekly Sohbet and Dhikr 26.11.2020

Sohbet on Thanksgiving and appreciation of the many blessings Allah ﷻ provides us and the many miracles we miss everyday. Followed by the weekly dhikr/meditation of the Naqshbandi tariqat. 📿💓 https://youtu.be/myc4oTATGQ4

The Man who designed the Two Holy Mosques

He was an Egyptian engineer and architect who preferred to be away from public limelights, unknown to many: Dr. Muhammad Kamal Isma'eel (1908-2008) He was the youngest person in the history of Egypt to obtain high school (certificate), the youngest to get enrolled in the first Royal School of Engineering and the youngest to graduate…Read more The Man who designed the Two Holy Mosques

Peace Be Upon You 🕊️

The main greeting of messengers of God in the Abrahamic religions is: Moses: Shalom aleichemJesus: Shlomo aleykhunMuhammad: Salam alaikum All mean “peace be upon you”, so isn't it time we spread peace? Isn't that what Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, and all the messengers of God, would like us to do? There are of course differences between…Read more Peace Be Upon You 🕊️

Friday Reflections 20.11.2020

Salam alaikum and Jummah Mubarak! This week I read and discuss the importance of repentance and humility in Islam, reading from Ishad: Wisdom of a Sufi Master by Shaykh Muzaffer Ozak Al-Jerrahi (p.281-284). https://youtu.be/IC2F8PKx8gk

Khatm Khwajagan 19.11.2020

Sohbet on knowledge and learning; what do we really know? Do you even know where we're from? Followed by the weekly dhikr/meditation of the Naqshbandi tariqat. 📿💓 https://youtu.be/_8HOU6qKtzY

Real Shaykhs and Fake Ones

~ Mawlana Shaykh Nazim Adil Al-Haqqani https://youtu.be/iamDiIBYgYI Sohbat from 2005. As our masters have said, as our Grandshaykh Sultanu l-Awliya would always say during a sohba: Tariqatuna as-sohba wa l-khayru fi l-jam’iyya. Sohba is the soul, the life of the tariqa; tariqa cannot exist without it, it is the pillar of tariqa. Without it tariqa…Read more Real Shaykhs and Fake Ones

How Did Jesus Pray?

“Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, ‘Sit here while I go over there and pray.’ He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, ‘My soul is overwhelmed with…Read more How Did Jesus Pray?