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What happens when a spiritual experience becomes too profound for words? Shams Tabrizi explores the limits of language, silence, and the mysterious distance between what the heart experiences and what the tongue…
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How did Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic, become one of America’s bestselling poets? His poetry explores Sufism, Islamic mysticism, divine love, spiritual awakening, the soul, and the search for…
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When does a palace cease to be a building? For Rumi, the medieval Persian poet and Sufi teacher, this question touches the ancient human problem of learning to see. It is existential.…
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Human perception suffers from a persistent, primordial ailment. We gaze upon the surface of reality and presume to have understood its depths. We measure the infinite through the narrow lens of the…
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The timeless allegories of the Sufi traditions do not exist to entertain the temporal mind. They are precision instruments designed to dissect the unseen anatomy of human suffering. In the opening movement…
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We spend our lives searching. We search for happiness in a new job, in a better relationship, in a bigger house, in a distant city. We travel, we read, we ask, we…
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In our hyper-connected, lightning-fast world, patience has become an endangered species. We refresh our inboxes obsessively. We grow tense at red lights. We demand instant answers to every question that flickers through…
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If you walk into a Sufi lodge in Istanbul, a zāwiya in Fez, or a dargāh in Delhi, and ask the master (shaykh) to trace his spiritual lineage, you will hear a…
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In Western historical narratives, Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (599–661 CE) is often remembered primarily as a political figure—the fourth Caliph of Sunni Islam, the first Imam of Shi’i Islam, and a…
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Discover who Prophet Muhammad was, his life and character, his message of Islam, and his place in Shi’a understanding through the Qur’an and Ahlul Bayt. Who Is the Prophet Muhammad? Who was…
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