Inspirations and Creative Thoughts

1. "If you treat other lives as your own life and live within the resonance of God's compassion, wisdom will dawn and you will know yourself. If you know yourself, you will know that God lives in you and you live in God." - Bawa Muhaiyaddeen may God protect and sanctify his Sirr 2. The...

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1. I had a dream last night.. I was little sad since last few days, from last two nights I was requesting God for guidance. Then I had this dream. I dreamt that I am standing in a shop and telling the guys who run the shop to introduce me with a man...

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1. Introduction to A New Series on Dreams Welcome to a new series on Dreams at Inspirations and Creative Thoughts. We are very much blessed that among those who are drawn near here, many of them are gifted with powerful spiritual visions and dreams. In this segment we will be sharing some...

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Ke bojhe tomar opar leele? Allah! ke bojhe tomar opar leele?Tumi Aapni Allah, dako 'Allah' bole! Who can comprehend Your endless play!Allah! who can comprehend Your endless play?!From Your Lord-Self You cry out 'Allah' - Your Name Supreme! Nurer kare tumi NuriChile dimbo avatar e. You are 'Light upon Light',Without ceasing inevery incarnation. Shakare srijon...

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1. Come to the garden in spring. There is light and wine And sweethearts In the pomegranate blossoms. If you do not come, These do not matter. If you do come, These do not matter. - Mevlana Rumi,  Coleman Barks (Recitation via Youtube) 2. For the Sufi the garden had many meanings. It was a place of repose, a centrally...

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1. Be a beauteous blossom of love. - Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti For every fully awakened master (human being who have mastered over his or her own selfhood) of every age, those who gathered around that luminous figure, there has been a common denominator. And that commonality being 'single pointed love' for that...

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1. Irshaad Hussain's resourceful website Islam from Inside recently published an inspiring talk by Professor William Chittick, one of the most prominent scholar of Islamic Mysticism of our time, may God accept his beautiful service. Delivered at the Carleton University, this fascinating talk explores the theme of "The Role of Love...

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1. Found in his book, Atom from the Sun of Knowledge, Shaikh Lex Hixon Nur al Jerrahi, may Allah bless his noble soul, compiled a selection from the thousand of authentic Oral Traditions of the Prophet and these Traditons are a meditation in itself, without need for commentary. Each of these...

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Alhamdu li-Llahi, wa salamun AAala AAibadihi allazeena istafa! Praise be to Allah, and peace on His adoring-servants whom He has chosen! - The Quran 27:59 1. The lunar month of Rabiul Awwal (which means, First Month of Spring) is a very special month containing both the birth and departure of the seal...

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1. A mystical experiences is an experience of merging with God or the "cosmic spirit." Many religions emphasize the gulf between God and Creation, but the mystic experiences no such gulf. He or she has experienced being "one with God" or "merging" with him. The idea is that what we usually...

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1. You should try to hear the name He has for things. There is something in the phrase: “He taught Adam names.” We name everything according to its outward form; He names it according to the batin, to what is inside. Moses waved his stick; he thought it was a staff, Inside its name was “serpent.” No one knows...

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1. Welcome to the 4th Episode of In Quest of My Oasis series where we hope to engage with contemporary seekers who are drawn to special quest that gets started when we awaken as human being by the graceful touch of the Real, sometime triggered by the deep longing for what...

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Inna allazeena amanoo wa AAamiloo als salihati sayajAAalu lahumu ar-Rahmanu Wudda. Surely those who open to faith  and do beautiful wholesome works,for them the One Who is the Most Gracious  will appoint Love. ~ The Quran, The Chapter of Mary, 19:96 ~ # Selections from Previous Editions of Meditative Quranic Verses . Genesis of Man . Overflowing Love . Guided...

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1. Essential for the journey to Allah are three things. Dhikr is the first. First is Dhikr. Dhikr, invocation of Allah, is the great practice of the People. It has three degrees. To the common people it is dhikr of the tongue. To the elite, it is dhikr of the heart. To the...

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This morning I received an email from a sufi community in USA with this subject line: 'Dhikr - Valentine with the Real Beloved' I thought I would pass it to you. May it become a seed of meditation and God willing, a seed of realization as well. Dhikr (also written as Zikr or...

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1. In a previous post titled, 'God Maker and Prophet's Ascension' our beloved visitor Aliya made a comment questioning whether UNITY was necessary (or a precondition) for the enlightened beings. In the post, citing the words of Omid Safi, where its mentioned, "... before we can have that intimate encounter with...

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1. Love is the flame which, when it blazes, consumes everything other than the Beloved. The lover wields the sword of Nothingness in order to dispatch all but God; consider what remains after Nothing. There remains but God: all the rest is gone. Praise to you, O mighty Love, destroyer of all other "gods". 2. After you've become nothing,...

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1. Tell me: if the hidden treasure is now on display at the bazaar, shouldn't the gnostic leave his cell and wander forth!   - Sufi Master, Khawaja Gharib Nawaz 2. The other day I was volunteering to teach 'how to use the internet' to few person (young and senior) in a non-government...

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The minute I heard my first love story, ... I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other .... all along. - Rumi Visiting the tomb of elect souls, those who have attained the Nearness is a living source of blessings. In Sufi tradition particularly, the final resting place of the great masters and...

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Whether you know me or not Come into my courtyard To you I am sacrificed Come into my courtyard Other than you there is none for me I have searched the jungles and the wilderness The whole world I have searched Come into my courtyard To you I am sacrificed Come into my courtyard People take Ranjha to be...

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1. Omid Safi, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill where he specializes on Islamic mysticism (Sufism), contemporary Islamic thought, and medieval Islamic history, gave an interesting introduction speech on the theme of Revelation at Seven Pillars' Inauguration' Opening Ceremony. It carries special inspiration and...

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1. Look at the birds flying in the sky, soaring above the trees and over the rooftops. They are searching for food. All day long they fly about in order to satisfy the hunger of their stomachs, but at twilight they must return to their nests. Man also searches for food...

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Travel one way. The return to God. Single-minded pursuit of divine truth. This means banishing and dispelling every thought, good or bad, that comes to mind involuntarily during the dhikr. When performing the remembrance the heart is required to attain the calm contentment of: “Oh Allah, my goal is You and Your good pleasure; it is nothing...

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tomari deywa praane,tomari deywa dukho,tomari deywa buke,tomari onubhobo. within Your gifted soul, its Your grieving. within Your gifted heart, its Your longing tomari du noyonetomari shok baaritomari bakulotatomari haha robo. from this gift of two eyes from You, flows streams for You, the passion for You cries the cry of longing tomari deywa nidhitomari kere neyatomari shonkitoakulo potho ...

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1. Last night our master taught the lessons of Love on cellular level. We were given the silent heart meditation: "KO-HUM?" 'Who am I?' "SO-HUM" 'You are That' 'You are Ruhullah, the Divine Breath. ' At the break of the dawn in our circle of poor hearted wanderers, we prayed, we bowed, we prostrated in unison and our master uttered these...

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