In this powerful reflection, Omid Safi speaks to the necessity of moral clarity in times of violence.

Release yourself into the Music of the Mystics with Fanna-Fi-Allah sharing traditional Sufi Qawwali on Sunday 14 June.

A masterful ensemble of tabla, harmonium, and choral vocals for an evening of ecstatic energy, unity and divine love.

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Christian Nationalism vs. Sufism Two very different visions of faith and spirituality Christian Nationalism: 1. Believes America is chosen by God and should be a “Christian nation” 2. Views America as morally superior and defines who counts as a “real” American 3. Equates loyalty to their own culture and beliefs with Christianity 4. Reinterprets Christianity and the Bible to align with political and cultural interests 5. Seeks political power to control government over religion, belief, and behavior 6. Abuses faith and law to consolidate power and wealth 7. Relies on false accusation, fear, division, and warfare to gain and hold power Sufism: 1. Sees all nations and peoples as equal before God, without any one nation chosen above others 2. Rejects claims of moral superiority and emphasizes humility and the equal worth of all people 3. Places loyalty to God and truth above culture, identity, or nationality 4. Seeks deeper spiritual meaning through reflection, not reinterpretation for political or material gain 5. Avoids political domination, focusing instead on inner transformation and ethical living 6. Renounces accumulation of power and wealth, emphasizing simplicity, generosity, and detachment 7. Responds to conflict with compassion, truth, and nonviolence, seeking unity over division

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Salah Sarsour came to the US from the West Bank and built a life for himself as a Palestinian American community leader in Milwaukee. Now, he’s being held captive by ICE.

The Trump administration continues to target Palestinian activists to silence dissent.

Salah Sarsour, a Palestinian community leader in Milwaukee and a U.S. permanent resident for over 30 years, has been abducted and held by ICE for over two weeks as the DHS alleges that he previously supported and helped fund a “terrorist organization” and lied during his immigration process.

Works with Christian Mysticism as well

In the Bible, Jewish and Christian nationalism are determined to be a blatant form of self-idolatry.

The Qur'an says much the same, at 3:103, 4:135, 5:8, 6:159, 9:31, 25:43, 30:32, 33:67-68, 45:23, and 49:13.

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I've always felt that the Delta #Blues is very, close to the roots of Malian music. Or even #gnawa. But that's just me, perhaps

the beginning of ibn arabi's chapter on the waystation of trial (#317). "why did he not from the first build that house / to last, its life not to perish? / it did nothing to deserve ruin / so why did he raise it up and why did he lay it waste / the hand of trial but toyed with us and it..."

America can only be saved through wholesale conversion to Sufism.

Crazy how there are religions (including Christian sects!) that preach ego death as part of the process of spiritual enlightenment, and then there's whatever the fuck this is.

If you spend time around American evangelicals you quickly realize that they assign all of their own tastes, impulses, habits, to God. If they like someone? God put that person there. If they make a mistake? God’s plan. If you make a mistake? Satan is inside you and you must submit to God (them)

no records for me today but i did snag this CD 🤍

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In addition to the Olympia concert material, the CD features a unique recorded version of "What Will You Say", performed as a duet with Azerbaijani Mugham singer Alim Qasimov. This recording is from the 1995 "Festival of Sacred Music" held in France (July 18, 1995 in Saint-Florent-Le-Vieil, Maine-et-Loire) and features just Buckley on guitar, Qasimov on daf drum and the two taking turns in singing in a competitive vocal performance, which is one aspect of traditional Qawwali.

jeff buckley’s love of Qawwali soothes my spirit

Trumble’s Ontology of Truth & Liberation TIFEOntology — No Myth. No Dogma. Just Precise Seeing.

Not empty. Not full. No subject. No object. No experiencer. The field prior to all differentiation — language can only point approximately.
TIFE Ontology - trumbletruth.com
#TIFEOntology #Philosophy #Consciousness #Taoism #Sufism

Marxism and psychology - Socialist Worker Continuing a strand of debate, Canadian socialist Susan Rosenthal argues that we must look to social rather than individual solutions to mental ill health.

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This socialist argument -- that collective solutions are needed for collective suffering -- resonates with the Sufi insistence on community (sohbet) over individualism. The reed's cry of separation is not only spiritual. Sometimes it is a cry against unjust conditions.

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Research shows social support and stable housing outperform medication for severe mental illness. The material matters. Sufism has always known that the conditions of life shape the condition of the heart -- safa cannot be cultivated in isolation from justice.

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Marxism and Psychology - Susan Rosenthal Biological psychiatry treats mental distress as an individual defect. Marxism treats it as the inevitable consequence of capitalist oppression.

A Marxist analysis of mental illness argues the wound is social, not individual: Alienation and poverty produce suffering more than faulty brain chemistry. As Sufis, we might ask: does this not mirror the teaching that the nafs is shaped by what surrounds it?

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Bowl of Saki for April 17, 2026

IT IS THE SURFACE OF THE SEA THAT MAKES WAVES AND ROARING BREAKERS; THE DEPTH IS SILENT.--Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):

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Khwaja Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki, a revered Chishti sufi, settled in 13th-century Delhi. He spread divine love, humility through simple living. His Mehrauli shrine offers spiritual solace to devotees.

#sufinama | #sufism | #sufi | #sufiteachings | #KhwajaQutubuddinBakhtiyarKaki

New article by Prof. Brett Wilson: #Sufi leaders in the early Turkish Republic: profession, privilege, and persecution (1925–1950)

This article investigates the lives of Sufi leaders following the Turkish state’s abolition of Sufism in 1925.

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Master Musicians Of Jajouka / Tribe Ahl Serif: Master Musicians Of Jajouka (1975) [FULL ALBUM] YouTube video by Observations of Deviance

The best album by the MASTER MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA that you've never heard. #gnawa #Morocco

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Guénon was an esotericist who moved from Catholicism through theosophy to Sufi Islam, calling for elite aristocratic order and denouncing industrial materialism. In Sufism he saw a vessel for the false nostalgia of traditionalism to be preserved. Is Steve Bannon doing something similar with Vance?

Bannon is doing something similar with the philosophy of Evola, and he's using Vance, Milo Yiannopoulis, and a number of other Nazis to infiltrate the Catholic and Orthodox churches to attempt it. The difference between Guenon and Evola, though is that Guenon was okay with the Abrahamic God.

Guénon was an esotericist who moved from Catholicism through theosophy to Sufi Islam, calling for elite aristocratic order and denouncing industrial materialism. In Sufism he saw a vessel for the false nostalgia of traditionalism to be preserved. Is Steve Bannon doing something similar with Vance?

They’re Not Bigots. They Just Think, Talk, and Act Like They Are. The House GOP’s “Sharia-Free America Caucus” is an un-American fraud.

Eye-opening piece by @saletan.bsky.social @thebulwark.com on the "Sharia-Free America Caucus" with 60+ GOP members.
They're not "wrong that there’s a dangerous movement afoot to impose religious law in the US. They’re just wrong about which religion it is."

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"The Sharia-Free America Caucus isn’t wrong that there’s a dangerous movement afoot to impose religious law in the United States. They’re just wrong about which religion it is."

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