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In Sufi terminology, wine is a metaphor for Divine Love. It does not mean the intoxicating beverage known to drunkards and alcoholics. (1/) https://t.co/OYYVhY2vC2
You see, Islam is the only religion that gives both husband and wife a true understanding of what love is. The Western “love” concept, you take it apart, it really is lust. (1/) h...
A Muslim generally does not exist as an individual. If he wishes to live and survive as a Muslim, he must create an environment, a community, an order. (1/) https://t.co/B7vXpX3ff...
The Ottoman Sultans used to employ salaried officials with the task of shouting at them, as they left the mosque in procession on Fridays and Feast Days: “Be not proud, my Emperor!...
“A man’s jihad today is to be a man. Women are already good at being women.” — Shaykh Dr. Abdal Hakim Murad (T.J. Winter) https://t.co/GUEM7iCXVo
Islam has never claimed to be a “new” religion in the sense in which most of us would understand the term. On the contrary, it presents itself as a restoration and re-statement of...
The visually-impaired will mistake the Dajjal, the one-eyed ‘Antichrist’, for Christ returned. But the believer, complex or simple, will be spared this ironic myopia. (1/) https://...
“He [Imam Husayn] chose the path of danger and hardships with duty and honor, and never swerved from it giving up his life freely in the absolute bravest of ways ever known to mank...
It's time again for a Sufi reading list. ✨ ⬇️ https://t.co/CCipvhPlGk
Rumi was particularly sensitive to the spiritual efficacy of beauty, that 'splendor of the Truth' which for him was always the gateway to the inner courtyard of the Divine Mysterie...
The greatest anti-colonial Muslim warriors were Sufis. Sufism is not a pacifist tradition, but the Sufis followed the Islamic code of chivalry (futuwwa/jawanmardi), and did not kil...