I begged for power and found it in knowledge
I begged for honor and found it in poverty
I begged for health and found it in asceticism
I begged my account be lessened before God
and found it in silence
I begged for consolation and found it in despair
- Ali Sahl Esfahani
Taken from the Darvish Blog
Archive for September, 2007
A Sufi Poem
Posted in Uncategorized on September 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Protected By Allah
Posted in Uncategorized on September 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I came into work today at around 7:15am. I was sitting in my classroom doing some work when all of the sudden I heard a loud crash and scream. I look out my window to see what had occurred and I saw a women laying on the ground across the street. and a two car [...]
How Ungrateful Are We?
Posted in Uncategorized on September 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
After reading a ten page, hand-written letter that Asif received from one of the inmates of a prison today, it made me think about how we’re all meant to be in the places we are at, all with Allah ‘azza wa jal’s Will. The mosquitos that Asif and I did Hizb al-Bahr with on top [...]
Longing to Meet Her Lord
Posted in Uncategorized on September 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
“O God, my whole occupation
And all my desire in this world,
Of all worldly things,
Is to remember You.
And in the Hereafter
It is to meet You.
This is on my side, as I have stated.
Now You do whatever You will.”
-Rabi’a al Adawiyya
Words of Wisdom
Posted in Uncategorized on September 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
God and God’s angels bless the Prophet: O believers, invoke blessings on him, and greet him with a prayer for peace. As for those who offend God and the Messenger of God, God has cursed them in this world and the hereafter, and arranged a degrading punishment for them. [33: 56, 57]
The one who realizes [...]
Reliance Upon God
Posted in Uncategorized on September 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Some of the most sublime bestowals of God are contentment with the reliance upon God in hardships, and recourse to Him in reverse of fortune. [Shaykh Abul Hasan Shadhili]
Relevance of Kalam from Kalam and Islam
Posted in Uncategorized on September 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So in the coming century, three areas of kalam’s legacy will remain especially relevant for Muslims: first, the proofs for the existence of God from necessity and design, second, the rebuttal of the heresy of scientistic reductionism and atheism, and third, promoting tolerance among Muslims. The latter is one of the [...]
Kalam and Islam – Kufr
Posted in Uncategorized on September 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One should know that theologians have had considerable difficulty defining kufr (unbelief). . . Kufr consists in denying the truth of anything the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) is necessarily known to have said. Examples include denying the Creator’s existence, His knowledge, power, choice, oneness, or perfection above all deficiencies and infirmities. Or denying [...]
The Khalil Gibran School in New York
Posted in Uncategorized on September 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Personally, as a New York City teacher, I think that the move to open this school is extremely important. The school’s focus is on Arabic and those denouncing it as a madrassa are only showing their ignorance of Islam and Middle Eastern Studies. This school could be means toward increasing understanding between cultures.
The reporters and [...]
Imam Suhaib on Setting the Record Straight
Posted in Uncategorized on September 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The problem arises when groups try to monopolize their contentions as being the complete representation of the tradition.
Our sufi/madhabi brethren will say this means to follow one of the four schools of law, hold to being an ‘Ashari or Maturidi in creed and a follower of Sufism (although they differ on the obligation to take [...]
