On Rumi, meeting, and the places where our categories dissolve DIYAR-E-GHAYR I often wonder whether we have truly grasped the depth of Rumi’s words: “Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.” And perhaps the moment we think we have exhausted their meaning is precisely the moment we drift furthest from it. These words…
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YouTube link By Sa’īd Abdul Latif (on Medium.com) author of “The Muslim Priest” This is a talk that I recently gave for the Center for Process Studies. I was terribly sick and severely lacking in sleep when I gave it, but mashallah… it seems to have been well received. I would invite everyone to donate and support the Center for…
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STUDIO OF MEANING Peace and love, Welcome to the Studio of Meaning book club, where we will be sharing important books on Ibn ʿArabi’s life and thought as well as community discussions about these works in the future. For our first post in this series, we respond to a query which quite a few people have asked about recently, an…
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NAOKI YAMAMOTO MAR 21 A diagram of the “Heart” (心) from the Han Kitab tradition, a classical Sino-Islamic intellectual heritage. The Arabic word for Allah is written within the Chinese character for “heart” (心). At its core, East Asian thought may be understood as a sustained reflection on the harmony of the Three Powers (三才): Heaven, Earth, and Humanity. Heaven…
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By Zafar Bangash, Crescent International Given the intellectual decline in the Muslim world, Muslims have adopted practices that are contrary to the teachings of Islam. Who is unaware of the destructive role played by al-Qaeda, the takfiris and ISIS over the last 30 to 40 years? Propped up by the west, primarily the US, they have served as a cover…
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People are more likely to follow rules of good behavior if they can directly sense, intuit, or even know that there is a divine Reality behind those rules. Mysticism teaches direct encounters with the Reality at the heart of religion.
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