Poems of Rumi, tr. by Coleman Barks
Excerpts from Open Secret, Unseen Rain, Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion, & This Longing
A Collection of Hadith on Non-Violence, Peace and Mercy
We were with the Prophet on a journey, and some men stood up repeating aloud, 'God is most great;' and the Prophet said, 'O men, be easy on yourselves and do not distress yourselves by raising your voices; truly, you do not call to one deaf or absent, but truly to one who hears and sees; and He is with you; and He to whom you pray is nearer to you than the neck of your camel.
Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad
Islam began as something strange, and it will become thus again, as it was at the beginning. Blessed, therefore, are the strangers. (He was asked who the strangers are:) The strangers are those who restore what the people have corrupted of my law, as well as those who revive what has been destroyed of it.
The Legacy of Muhammad Asad
The Message of the Qur'an, The Road to Mecca, Sahih al-Bukhari (distributed by Threshold Books)
Signs of the Unseen: Discourses of Rumi, tr. by W.M. Thackston
An excerpt from Signs of the Unseen, by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (Threshold Books, 1995)
The Qur’an on Spiritual Perception
Prepared by Kabir Helminski, August 2007 Signs for Those Who Use Their Intelligence Truly, in the creation of the heavens and of the earth, and the succession of night and day: and in the ships that speed through the sea with what is useful to man: and in the waters which God sends down [...]