The Journey Within

By Wanderer It was in August 1989 and the date was either 10 or 11. I had a strange dream, a dream that I…

Itihaas : Was Hussaiyn bin Mansour Al Hallaj inspired by India?

By Akhilesh Mittal In the third century of its advent Islam and its world were in ferment about forms of polity such as the…

Data Ganj Baksh: Lahore’s oldest guide

Perhaps the greatest of the experiences at Data Darbar is to find oneself connected to a stream of humanity, shoulder to shoulder, with a…

Fana: When the ego gets annihilated

Source Sufi thought is centred around the two fundamental doctrines of the Transcendent Unity of Being or wahdut al-wujud and the universal or perfect…

Rumi and Sufism

An Interview with Seyyed Hossein Nasr on Islam’s Spiritual Science in the Modern Age By WAJAHAT ALI Rumi, the best selling poet in America…