Muhammad: The First and the Last Prophet
Without a doubt everything has been created from the secret treasure / For the sea of love rose and moved with the winds of love Aziz Mahmud Hudâyi Haqiqat-i Muhammadiyya and Nur-i Muhammadi within Sufi Culture The Sufi understanding states that all the other Prophets were the proxies of Prophet Muhammad in this world before he emerged. This act of proxy is the representation of Haqiqat-i Muhamm...

Mawlana's Love and Devotion for Prophet Muhammad
Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi was profoundly devoted to the Prophet. Mawlana’s deep love, respect and devotion to Muhammad (pbuh) were based on these reasons: The greatness of his name and worth. His superior, worthy, respectable and influential personality. His beautiful virtue, his being subject to divine grace and favor, and the universality of the great mission and message he brought. M...

Between the left and right brain: the limits of reason
Close both eyes to see with the other eye. (Rumi)   As many of us know, the brain is divided into two hemispheres: the left and right. What many don’t know is the particular abilities of each of these hemispheres. Our left brain is logical, makes plans and remembers. Our right perceives the external world, is impressed upon by our senses and is where we feel emotion. Making this distinction has ...

The Importance of Zuhd
Under the blessed roof of Masjid an-Nabawi, he raised a model generation not enslaved to materialism. In this regard, it can be said that his life was one that was intertwined with zuhd. The prophets, tasked with proclaiming divine messages to mankind, were figures selected from amongst people to convey and demonstrate truths to humanity. They neither asked for any price/compensation from ...

Sufism and Hadith
In its general meaning mysticism is the name of “a person’s taking a stand against the world and searching for the truth within himself.” In a sense, it is the common aspect of all belief systems and philosophical schools. Together with differences of attitude, there is a mystical understanding in all systems. Sufism is the name of the path to attaining Islamic spiritual life an...

Prophetic Love and Its Social Reflections
The human is a being that questions his raison d’etre, which makes him special and distinguishes him from other beings. When attributing meanings to his world, he tries to explain where his own existence fits in and who and what he is. Religion and religious values occupy an important place in the search for answers to the questions of: “Who am I?” “What are the basic values that make me?” “And w...

The Consideration of Prophet and Sunna within Mawlana Thought
Maulana, who took the fine morality of Prophet Muhammad as his measure, attempted to show in all his works the paths of virtue and skill. When we look at the works of Maulana, in particular the Masnavi we see that he examines the blessing inherent in the sending of a prophet by Allah. In this respect, he likens life in this world to a dungeon and emphasizes that the prophets are the only people w...

Hadith in the pages of the Mathnawi
Listen to the reed flute, its song of separation:   Mawlana Mawlana's Mathnawi shares the internal journey of man and his spiritual evolution through verses from the Holy Qur'an and hadith through various talmih (referencing) involving stories and tales. Talmih is the art of stating one's point in a suggestive fashion, between words and by not revealing it clearly. It recall...