Yafiah R. posted an article on WILD DERVISH WRITES - Nov 9, 2009, 5:25 am
Image via Wikipedia The beginning of movement is stillness. The beginning of sound is silence. Within every dance of creation, the flutter of a bird’s wings, the explosion of a star, the hand t...
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Yafiah R. posted an article on WILD DERVISH WRITES - Nov 8, 2009, 5:37 am
Image via Wikipedia I was just speaking to a friend on SU about the film Bab’Aziz and said how I feel the mystic tradition of all religions comes very close to the core reality of being. For me...
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Yafiah R. posted an article on WILD DERVISH WRITES - Oct 26, 2009, 7:17 am
Sometimes I write about poetry here and sometimes I write poetry myself. Today I read the following poem on the tasawwuf blog of my sister on the path, Maryam It is beautiful and with its words it cap...
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Yafiah R. posted an article on WILD DERVISH WRITES - Sep 20, 2009, 6:19 am
Image via Wikipedia In this beautiful miniature painting that illustrates a scene from Nizami’s telling of the folk story of Layla and Majnun we see Majnun in the wilderness longing for his bel...
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Yafiah R. posted an article on WILD DERVISH WRITES - Sep 20, 2009, 5:55 am
Two well loved stories of love from the Sufi and the Hindu traditions where both serve as metaphors for the love of the Beloved clipped from astore.amazon.com Discover the common ground shared betwe...
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Yafiah R. posted an article on WILD DERVISH WRITES - Sep 20, 2009, 5:36 am
Image via Wikipedia Eid Mubarak to all my dear friends and readers! May blessings abound throughout the world! Posted in Islam, Sufi Tagged: EidMubarak
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Yafiah R. posted an article on WILD DERVISH WRITES - Sep 17, 2009, 1:02 pm
Just found this piece of very heartening news. Alhamdulillah! clipped from www.dawn.com RESTON: On Friday afternoons, the people coming to pray at this building take off their shoes, unfurl rugs to ...
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Yafiah R. posted an article on WILD DERVISH WRITES - Sep 17, 2009, 6:26 am
Image via Wikipedia I recently put this in my Facebook notes and then thought that readers here might also enjoy it. Just a few thoughts on the experience of the dissolution of the nafs (ego matrix) ...
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Yafiah R. posted an article on WILD DERVISH WRITES - Sep 11, 2009, 2:47 pm
... eye, worshipped in every object of worship, and pursued in the unseen and the visible. Not a single one of His creatures can fail to find Him in its primordial and original nature. Ibn ‘...
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Yafiah R. posted an article on WILD DERVISH WRITES - Sep 7, 2009, 3:34 pm
Sometimes I get a bit of a squint trying to see the light at the end of the tunnel. But it’s always there. I just have to take off my sun glasses! Ya Rabb! Ya Allah! Help me to keep my eyes open. P...
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Yafiah R. posted an article on WILD DERVISH WRITES - Sep 5, 2009, 4:32 pm
This is a re-posting that was originally on my other blog, The Sufi Book and Music Blog but I thought it worth posting it here too as I get more readers here and contemporary Sufi poetry is definitely...
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Yafiah R. posted an article on WILD DERVISH WRITES - Aug 23, 2009, 5:38 pm

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Yafiah R. posted an article on WILD DERVISH WRITES - Aug 17, 2009, 7:32 am
I love, I hurt, I learn, I love again Am I foolish? Every step is reckless, Every caress attempts To touch anew The first innocence of hope That I will return to You Posted in Poetry, Sufi Refl...
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