A broken heart hides treasures. Most of problems of the world stem from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstanding. When you step into the zone of love, language, as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence. Loneliness and solitude are two different things. When you are lonely, it is easy to delude yourself into believing that you are on the right path.
Solitude is better for us, as it means being alone without feeling lonely. But eventually it is the best to find a person who will be your mirror. Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair.
Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! It is easy to be thankful when all is well. A Sufi is thankful not only for what he has been given but also for all that he has been denied. Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to look at the end of a process. What does patience mean? It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn.
Impatience means to be shortsighted as to not be able to see the outcome. The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full. East, west, south, or north makes little difference. No matter what your destination, just be sure to make every journey a journey within. The midwife knows that when there is no pain, the way for the baby cannot be opened and the mother cannot give birth.
Likewise, for a new self to be born, hardship is necessary. Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain. The quest for love changes us. There is no seeker among those who search for love who has not matured on the way.
The moment you start looking for love, you start to change within and without. There are more fake gurus and false teachers in this world than the number of stars in the visible universe. A genuine spiritual master will not direct your attention to himself or herself and will not expect absolute obedience or utter admiration from you, but instead will help you to appreciate and admire your inner self.
True mentors are as transparent as glass. They let the light of God pass through them. Try not to resist the changes, which come your way. Instead let life live through you.
And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? God is busy with the completion of your work, both outwardly and inwardly. He is fully occupied with you. Every human being is a work in progress that is slowly but inexorably moving toward perfection. We are each an unfinished work of art both waiting and striving to be completed. God deals with each of us separately because humanity is fine art of skilled penmanship where every single dot is equally important for the entire picture.
What is far more difficult is to love fellow human beings with all their imperfections and defects. Remember, one can only know what one is capable of loving. There is no wisdom without love. Real filth is the one inside.
The rest simply washes off. There is only one type of dirt that cannot be cleansed with pure waters, and that is the stain of hatred and bigotry contaminating the soul. You can purify your body through abstinence and fasting, but only love will purify your heart.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being-you. Everything that you see around, including the things that you might not be fond of and even the people you despise or abhor, is present within you in varying degrees. Therefore, do not look for Sheitan outside yourself either. The devil is not an extraordinary force that attacks from without. It is an ordinary voice within. If you set to know yourself fully, facing with honesty and hardness.
If you want to change the ways others treat you, you should first change the way you treat yourself. Unless you learn to love yourself, fully and sincerely, there is no way you can be loved. Once you achieve that stage, however, be thankful for every thorn that others might throw at you.
It is a sign that you will soon be showered in roses. Fret not where the road will take you. Instead concentrate on the first step. That is the hardest part and that is what you are responsible for. Once you take that step let everything do what it naturally does and the rest will follow. Be the flow. We were all created in His image, and yet we were each created different and unique. No two people are alike. No hearts beat to the same rhythm. If God had wanted everyone to be the same, He would have made it so.
When a true lover of God goes into a tavern, the tavern becomes his chamber of prayer, but when a wine bibber goes into the same chamber, it becomes his tavern. Add a review Your Rating: Your Comment:. The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak. Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak. The Gaze by Elif Shafak. The Flea Palace by Elif Shafak. Honor by Elif Shafak. The Architects Apprentice by Elif Shafak. The author is an unknown first-time novelist, Aziz Zahara, who lives in Turkey.
Initially reluctant to take on a book about a time and place so different from her own, Ella soon finds herself captivated both by the novel and the man who wrote it, with whom she begins an e-mail flirtation.
As she reads, she begins to question the many ways she has settled for a conventional life devoid of passion and real love.
At the center of the novel that Ella is reading is the remarkable, wandering, whirling dervish Shams of Tabriz, a mystic provocateur who challenges conventional wisdom and social and religious prejudice wherever he encounters it.
He is searching for the spiritual companion he is destined to teach. You can find our Community Guidelines in full here. What aspects of Sufism do you find most appealing and relevant to contemporary life. Ella works for a literary agency and currently she is given a book named "Sweet Blasphemy" by Aziz Zahara! They believe one should never be too sure of lobe and they respect the amazing diversity in the universe.
Read it Forward Read it first. Elif Shafak is one of the most acknowledged and bravest of the authors and feminist in Turkey. The Forty Rules of Love is one of her best sellers. The novel consists of two parallel narratives. The contemporary one is about an unhappily married Jewish housewife named Ella living in Northampton, Massachusetts. Ella works for a literary agency and currently she is given a book named "Sweet Blasphemy" by Aziz Zahara.
The sweet blasphemy is the second narrative of this novel. It was to beget Mevlevi Sufism, please see our privacy policy, under my profile. To learn more about how we use and protect your data, practised through poetry.
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