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Spiritual Mentor and his Disciple
 Life has many aspects; each aspect possessing attraction. Living in the conscious world, when man peeks at the other side into the subconscious, the mystery that unfolds before him is that this world is divided into groups. Each group has it...
Flood
 When we mention religion, we tend to think of two styles of thought. Those belonging to one of these schools of thought are a rare group, while those belonging to the second school of thought are in the majority. Both of these groups claim t...
Vajdaan
 It is said that in order for man to live he must be bound to some set of beliefs. The beliefs or doctrines that are imparted to the child's mind and that develop within it through the agency of I he environment that surrounds him or through...
Thirsty Earth
 If we analyze different beliefs, the observation that emerges is that religion is based on faith in the unseen. That is, [religion is based] upon the certainty that there are unseen realities that we are unable to see, but despite that, our...
The Central Point
 Man desires a life that is not familiar with death. He wants health that is not affected by illness. He wants an adulthood that does not turn into old age. But this has never happened. Adulthood changes into old age; illness, time and again,...
Transcendental Strings
 This issue has been the cause of much debate in the history of Sufism ['Islamic mysticism'] that when spiritual powers stir and operate within a person, how is one to discern whether these conditions are based on reality or whether they are t...
Idol Worship
 When we discuss religion, the first perception or awareness that is evoked is that of fear. Our religious leaders have tried their best to establish the distinction of this perception in relation to religion. When perception or awareness was...
Inventions
 As far as goodness and evil are concerned, no action in this world is good or evil. In reality, it is the act of giving meaning to an action that constitutes goodness or evil. The act of giving meaning refers to the intention that is behind...
Steam
 The importance of the study of the universe can be judged from the fact that in the Holy Quran there are 150 verses on topics such as ablution, salaat, fasting, zakaat ['tax Muslims must pay on their wealth for social and religious welfare w...
The Earthen Cage
 Who does not know that life is nothing but the past! The Intellectuals and the thinkers divide time into three parts—the past, the present, and the future. The past is the time that has gone away, the present is the time that is present now,...
The Past and the Future
 As we analyse life, only one reality emerges before our eyes, and that is, every son of Adam and each daughter of Eve desires to live his or her life happily, but the materialistic view of life always leaves him or her disappointed. This is...
Eternal Life
 Beyond the world of thought, on the other side, as spirit travels through the world of barzakh ['realm between material kind spiritual life'] and manifests itself in the form of a child, the first teacher of the child is she who cleanses and...
Ma'ee Sahiba
 Tall, with rosy cheeks and beautiful eyes, lips like petals of a flower, an attractive face on a graceful neck, hair like strands of silver, fragrant, and walking ever so gracefully, a Ma'ee sahiba ['an elderly lady'] came to visit. As she s...
Consciousness School of Thought
 As we analyze the months and years of life, we see that life is a machine made up of billions upon billions of mechanical parts. Just as any man-made machine depends upon energy and fuel [in order to function], in the same way the machine wi...
The Spiritual Eye
 Allah the Exalted is an existence; a being—an indivisible existence: a transcendental being. This indivisible existence and transcendental being wanted to be recognized. For recognition, it was necessary that, besides this indivisible 6111g,...
Qalander Baba Auliya R.A
 As worshippers exited the mosque after offering Friday prayers, there stood a person distributing religious literature. People were showing such impatience to get their hands on that literature, that it seemed as if it was candy that was bei...