Sanai: Love is nothing
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Photo: Dervish pilgrim by Pascal Sebah. Source: www.fostinum.org
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Love is nothing,
Save felicity and grace.
Love is nothing,
save opening the heart
and guidance.
Abu Hanifa?
Did not teach about love.
Shafi'i?
Does not narrate about it.
(Sanai)
Save felicity and grace.
Love is nothing,
save opening the heart
and guidance.
Abu Hanifa?
Did not teach about love.
Shafi'i?
Does not narrate about it.
(Sanai)
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Recommended Reading:
'Introduction to Sufi Doctrine'
by Titus Burckhardt (Author), William C. Chittick (Foreword)
Amazon.com
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Description:
Titus Burckhardt's masterpiece, Introduction to Sufi Doctrine, explores the essence of Islamic mysticism, or Sufism, presenting its central doctrines and methods to a Western audience in a highly intelligible form.
'As much as any Western scholar, Titus Burckhardt has brought to public attention the wisdom and beauty of the Sufi Way. . . . [This book is an] influential summary of the Philosophy of Sufism.'
(Sufism: An Inquiry)
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