We travelled by an auto rickshaw in the streets of Old Delhi, people from air conditioned SUVs rolled down their window to wish him with the humblest of salaams, he responded to them with his folded hands. Some strangers from the pavement recognized him at Connaught place and requested him to pray for them. He… continue reading
तसव्वुफ़ में साहित्य के विशाल भंडार को मुख्यतः तीन भागों में विभाजित किया जा सकता है । मक्तूबात (पत्र ), तज़किरा (जीवनवृत) एवं मल्फ़ूज़ात (उपदेश)। मक्तूबात के अंतर्गत उन पत्रों का संकलन आता है जो सूफी संतों ने अपने मुरीदों और समकालीन संतों को लिखे हैं । तज़किरे के अंतर्गत जीवनवृत संग्रह आता है जो… continue reading
O’ Beauty of Truth, the Eternal Light! Do I call you necessity and possibility, Do I call you the ancient divinity, The One, creation and the world, Do I call you free and pure Being, Or the apparent lord of all, Do I call you the souls, the egos and the intellects, The imbued manifest… continue reading
तसव्वुफ मुसलमानों के नज़दीक मज़हब के आंतरिक पक्ष का नाम है। इससे तात्पर्य वह तपस्या और संयम है जो दिल के पर्दे हटाये और सत्य का रहस्योद्घाटन करे। तसव्वुफ के उद्भव एवं विकास के दो युग बताये जाते है। पहला युग इस्लाम के आरम्भ से नवीं सदी ईस्वी के शुरु तक और दूसरा नवी सदी… continue reading
The lyrical notes enveloped his senses. He was mesmerized. A band of wandering minstrels was exhorting Moinuddin Chishti. And just then Moghul emperor Akbar was enveloped by a yearning; he had to go to Ajmer. It was sometime during the 1560s. The emperor travelled to the shrine to pray and distribute money among the poor… continue reading
A veritable mine of “Game of Wisdom” In this Blog, we reproduce seven of the most illuminating and thought-provoking letters on the cult of Sufism which Hazrat Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti affectionately wrote from Ajmer to his Khalifa (spiritual successor) Khawaja Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar kaki (may peace of God be upon his soul) who was the accredited… continue reading
