I DON’T care about haram or halal. I’d rather extinguish the fire in hell and burn heaven so that people could start loving God for no other reason than love.’ This statement, as quoted by Shams ...

The intersection of Sufism and Indian traditions has resulted in some of the most spiritually fulfilling and culturally ...

Prayers and melodic chants reverberated across Dakar’s Yoff neighborhood as thousands of Sufi Muslim followers from the ...

Prolific chanter Amer El-Touni, founder of the Sufi chanting group Egyptian Mawlawiyah, died Sunday in Cairo at the age of 57 ...

NORMATIVE Sufism is a genuine Islamic phenomenon as the Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) prophetic consciousness was founded upon very definite, vivid and powerful mystic experiences. From the inner ...

In the early days of Sufism, practitioners faced a dilemma: to practice and defend sama` was to assert the supremacy of the love relationship over all other religious obligations. At the same time, as ...

THIS is with reference to the write-up ‘Guru Nanak, a grounded celestial bard’ (Nov 25) which talked about the Guru’s sufi teachings. Sufi thoughts existed long before Guru’s time.

National Security Adviser Ajit Doval emphasized the need for an open flow of thoughts to mitigate conflicts linked to religious identities. At a book release event, he discussed the historical ...

More than 80 mazars (shrines) and darbar sharifs (Sufi centres) were attacked by extremist groups across the country over the last six months, according to “Global Sufi Organisation”.

Shahmaghsoudi School of Islamic Sufism in Reseda, staff arranged three large neatly-stacked piles of brand-new essential ...