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<title><![CDATA[Introspection in Mathnawi of Rumi. By Fraidoon Waraste]]></title>
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Introspection
One of the many notable aspects of Rumi's Mathnawi is its psychological depth. Many essential and fundamental spiritual matters, such as self-analysis, are profoundly and significantly elucidated.
 
The lively method of clarification that Rumi uses in his Mathnawi is absolutely unique, in that it surpasses the boundaries of time and space. Even today, people from all cultures and civilizations can use it to analyse and examine their behaviour, and thus bring about radical cha...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:08:51  GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Contract of Marriage]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[There has been much misunderstanding about marriage in the Islam religion.  The information in this article is designed to help dispel some of these misunderstandings.
It is interesting to learn that prior to Islam, in the nation of Arabia, marriage was a very different relationship than it is today.  In fact, that is where the idea that women were chattel and had no rights actually stems from. Prior to Islam that was truthful information.  Women were not given any rights of inheritance and wer...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:29:14  GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[An Introduction to Sufism]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In an article written by Seyyedeh Dr. Nahid Angha, she explains that the pursuit of truth is the quest for a particular goal.  She speaks to the fact that the difficulty of the path that one must travel to attain the goal is normally in direct relation to the goal itself:  in other words the greater the truth one seeks, the more difficult it can be to attain it.
Dr. Angha is the Co-Director of the International Association of Sufism (IAS).  Included in her many affiliations, she is also the mai...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:28:08  GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[An Apology to the Muslims and Jews For Ancient Wrongs]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the mid 1990's Christians came together to retrace the 2,000-mile route that Christian Crusaders had traveled during the Middle Ages to fight in the Crusades. This became known as the "Reconciliation Walk." The purpose of that walk was to build bridges of understanding and "reverse a legacy of animosity among three of the world's most prominent religions."

From a Cathedral in Cologne, Germany, in 1096, the first Christian crusaders set off for Jerusalem. Nine hundred years later, approxima...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:27:32  GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Absolutism]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The mirror that the One projects forth is not uniformly polished. The created being in which the absolute becomes the most fully conscious of itself is man. And there is in every generation al-insan al-kamil, "the Perfect Human Being", who is the link between the Absolute Being and the created realm. Through the mediacy of the Perfect Human Being the dynamic process of emanation and return takes place. In fact, the process would be impossible without that being, the most perfect Sufi, the qutb (...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:26:53  GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Islamic Doctrine is contained as a whole in the Tawhid, The "affirmation of Divine Unity". For]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Islamic Doctrine is contained as a whole in the Tawhid, The "affirmation of Divine Unity". For the ordinary believer this affirmation is the clear and simple axis of the religion. For the contemplative it is the door, which opens on to essential reality. The further the mind of the contemplative penetrates into the apparent rational simplicity of the Divine Unity, the more complex that simplicity will become; the several aspects which the reason acknowledges as belonging to Unity will be mor...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:26:12  GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The mirror that the One projects forth is not uniformly polished. The created being in which the abs]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The mirror that the One projects forth is not uniformly polished. The created being in which the absolute becomes the most fully conscious of itself is man. And there is in every generation al-insan al-kamil, "the Perfect Human Being", who is the link between the Absolute Being and the created realm. Through the mediacy of the Perfect Human Being the dynamic process of emanation and return takes place. In fact, the process would be impossible without that being, the most perfect Sufi, the qutb (...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:25:18  GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[It is the characteristics of Sufism that its expressions often hold the balance between love and kno]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It is the characteristics of Sufism that its expressions often hold the balance between love and knowledge. An emotional form of expression more easily integrates the religious attitude, which is the starting point of all Islamic spirituality. The language of love makes it possible to enunciate the most profoundly esoteric truths without coming into conflict with dogmatic theology. Finally, the intoxication of love symbolically corresponds to states of knowledge, which go beyond discursive thoug...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:24:17  GMT</pubDate>
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