Ya Nur ala Nur And today, Your Light returns, bouncing from Your leaves to my heart through the window that opens to Your Vastness. From where I sit, I cannot quite see Your sun rise, yet through the mirror, a hidden window opens, and Your rose pours through the air, reverberating with Your silent Song [...]
Ya Ghani, Ya Mughni Each seed knows its own name. Embedded in the DNA is its whole history of loving— who is matched with whom, and who descended— in cascading realms of servanthood of the One through whom we are related, manifesting the riches by which we grow— which are our birthright as seeds of [...]
Ya Rashid O Most Gracious Teacher, we wait upon Your Word, Your life-giving Word, You who grant life and bestow death, and life again, Everlasting, Ya Muhyi, Ya Mumit, Ya Hayy, Ya Qayyum— continually, You are opening and closing doors we cannot see; we cannot turn the handle, You alone hold the key to the [...]
Ya Quddus, Ya Wadud, Ya Hadi, Ya Wakil Paradise Island is welcoming us, beckoning, to come abide in that Vastness, beyond the travails of the mainland, across the waters of Your blessing— where one does not grieve, nor fear, and gentle talk of Spirit is all that comes to one’s ear. And He has purchased [...]
Ya Malik, Ya Quddus Each morning we awaken and watch as You unfurl all the glories of the day. Moment by moment we wait upon Your Word, O Sovereign, Most Holy One, who inspire our life, our love, it is You who shield us from harm when we would listen and turn to You, within [...]
A Talk by Shaikh Kabir Helminski at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., October 8th, 2016
The healing wisdom of God operates continually in every detail of existence. The human being can live and act in resonance with this wisdom through the remembrance (zhikr) of al-Hakim.
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October newsletter: an excerpt from Shaikh Kabir's upcoming December talk for Mevlana's Urs, Zeliha Akdan reflects on akhlaq (good nature), and images from the recent Turkey trip
Reflections on Sovereignty by Mahmoud Mostafa offered at the Threshold Society UK retreat in Dorset, August 26-29 2016.
Q: Sometimes I get confused between the conflict of ‘what will be will be,’ in light of the heedlessness of empires rising and falling, versus the concept of human collective consciousness to make a difference. I struggle between the concept of our free will, and igniting that with the right intention, while at the same time accepting that no matter how ever much it is lit with the right intention, even on a collective basis, ‘what will be will be.’