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| | Encyclopedia: Sufi |
 | | Sufis believe that their teachings are the essence of every religion, and indeed of the evolution of humanity as a whole. | | | Although philosophies vary between different Sufi sects, Sufism as a whole is primarily concerned with direct personal experience, and as such is often compared to Zen Buddhism and Gnosticism. | | | There is a major line of Non-Islamic or offshoot-Islamic Sufi thought that sees Sufism as predating Islam and being in fact universal and, therefore, independent of the Qur'an and the teachings of Prophet Muhammad. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Sufi
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| | Sufism, Sufi thought, philosophy, influences, Islam, India, Pakistan, Afgahnistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey |
| | Sufi currents were essential in easing the transition from the earlier Hindu, Buddhist, Judaic, Christian, Manichean, and Zoroastrian societies that had existed prior to the victory of the Islamic conquerors. | | | Sufi scholars went to great lengths in establishing a sense of continuity and evolution amongst the various revealed faiths - such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam. | | | But even as many Sufi scholars staunchly affirmed their loyalty to the Quran and Shari'at law, others used Sufism as a means of escaping the patriarchal weight and authority of Islam. |
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http://members.tripod.com/~INDIA_RESOURCE/sufi.html
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| | Introduction to Gnosis #30 |
| | On the one hand I had heard that Sufis were Islamic mystics (though surely the printer with the denim jacket and the Sufi Choir didn't match that image); on the other hand I had read a short book by Sufi teacher Hazrat Inayat Khan that emphasized the unity of all religions. | | | The Sufi work is foremost the quest for gnosis (ma'rifah) - the state of opening or illumination in union with God. | | | According to some Sufi teachings, this is the ultimate destiny of all conscious humans. |
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http://www.lumen.org/intros/intro30.html
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| | The Spirit of Things - 14/05/00: The Sufi Spirit of Remembering - Allah and the Self |
| | That's what the teaching of the Sufis is. Experience your religion. | | | The Path of Love together with meditative practices which induce ecstatic union with the Divine, have been attractive to many people who are not very interested in the legal or philosophical dimensions of the religious life. | | | Dr Ali Kianfar is a Sufi Master and President of the International Association of Sufism in San Francisco. |
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http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/spirit/stories/s126615.htm
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| | Sufi Ruhaniat International |
| | Yet the Sufi's true house of worship is the human heart, in which the Divine Beloved lives. | | | Sufism is a religion for those who wish to learn religion from it, a philosophy for those wanting wisdom from it, a mystical path for any who would be guided by it to the unfoldment of the Soul, and yet it is beyond all these things. | | | If invited to offer prayers in a church, a mosque, a synagogue, or a temple, the Sufi is ready to do so, knowing that all people worship the same God, the Only Being, no matter what Name they use. |
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http://www.ruhaniat.org
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| | Sufi MeditationSufi Master Khwaja Shamsuddin Azeemi Muraqaba-Tasawwuf-Amazon |
| | Shaykh Azeemi firmly believes that the fruits of Spiritual knowledge are not confined to one group or a faith and hence many of his students as well as those who benefited from his advice and his teachings of sufi meditation as well as Tasawwuf healing methods come from different backgorounds and faiths. | | | Author of Muraqaba:Art and Science of Sufi Meditation | | | Muraqaba (Sufi Meditation) of visualizing green color lights also helps. |
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http://www.sufiblog.com
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| | Glossary of Sufi words |
| | In the Sufi school founded by `Inayat Khan, the prayer under this heading is recited at noon, and during the formal class gathering authorized him. | | | ("`Inayat" means "providential" or "meticulously attentive.") The first Sufi master to publically teach in the West, and the founder of the initiatic lineage embodied in the Sufi Order of the West, et al. | | | Lit., "Glory be to God!" "God is Purity" is not really a correct translation, but it does aim one in a useful emotional direction. |
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http://peacedances.www3.50megs.com/glossary/glossary.html
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| | A Sufi response to political islamism: Al-ahbash of Lebanon |
| | Their religious, social, and political activism is rooted in the belief that the Islamist movement and its militant offshoots have become the self-styled defenders of Islam by representing themselves as the Islamic mainstream to the exclusion of other exponents of the faith. | | | Habashi's veneration of 'Ali is in keeping with the special position assigned by all Sufis to the fourth caliph, who is considered the originator of Islamic mysticism as "the Knower of God" (al-'arif bi'llah). | | | In his quest to purify the Muslim faith, Ibn Taymiyya vigorously opposed Sufi pantheism and such practices as the worship of saints and pilgrimages to their shrines, although he accepted a Sufism based on Islamic legalism and tradition. |
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http://almashriq.hiof.no/ddc/projects/pspa/al-ahbash.html
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| | International Sufi Healing Order |
| | Although the initiate has access to Sufi teaching and training, he or she is encouraged to live and honor their own religion or spiritual path. | | | The initiation, which is freely offered, is a covenant between the individual who feels called to a sacred healing ministry and the Divine Spirit. | | | The primary activity of the Sufi Healing Order is spiritual healing. |
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http://www.sufihealingorder.org
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| | Fons Vitae Publishing - Early Sufi Women, As-Sulami (Rkia Cornell) |
| | Early Sufi Women is the earliest known work in Islam devoted entirely to women's spirituality. | | | Whether they were scholars, poets, founders of Sufi schools, or individual mystics and ascetics, they embodied a wisdom that could not be hidden. | | | Not only does it provide a careful translation of one of the earliest collections of anecdotes about saintly women, it also provides an historical analysis of the role of women in Sulami's time and copious footnotes filled with information on the early personalities and technical discussions of Sufism. |
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http://www.fonsvitae.com/earlysufi.html
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| | Southwest Sufi Community |
| | We are creating a center of Sufi teaching and practice that serves as a retreat facility, a residential community, an experiential school in the interweaving of ecology, art, healing, and inclusive spirituality. | | | The Sufi's religion is the service of humanity, and the Sufi's only object of attainment | | | Those who resonate with our guiding vision and who are associated with an inclusive spiritual path are welcome to be members of the Southwest Sufi Community. |
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http://www.ruhaniat.org/about/SSC.php
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| | List of Sufi-related resources on the Internet |
| | Most Sufis are Muslims, followers of the religion of Islam. | | | Some Sufis (primarily in "the West") are involved with other religions, or no formal religion -- as directed by the higher source of wisdom within the human heart. | | | Needless to say, muslim and non-muslim alike are welcome to this newsgroup. |
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http://world.std.com/~habib
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| | Moon Over Medina - A Sufi Bookstore |
| | The discourses of a great Sufi saint who lived at the turn of the century on topics to aid spiritual seekers towards their goal. | | | The present work, writings of a prominent sufi saint of the 20th Century, Hazrat Syed Muhammad Zauqi Shah (RUA), were partly published in 1949, under the title "Mazamin-e-Zauqi" at a time when sub continent was still recovering from its division into two states of Pakistan and India. | | | Letters of a Sufi Saint to Jinnah-- by Syed Muhammad Zauqi Shah |
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http://www.moonovermedina.com
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