Baraka Blue @BarakaBlue

İmam Şâfiî (r.a): Bir adamın su üzerinde yürüdüğünü ve havada uçtuğunu görseniz bile, onun durumunu Kur'an (Kitap) ve Sünnet'e arz edip ölçmedikçe ona aldanmayın (hemen inanıp peşinden gitmeyin). • el-Bidâye ve’n-Nihâye - İbn Kesîr (v. 774)

𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭, 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐦 𝐔𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐡." (Tahzīb al Hilyah,Vol 3,p.20)

#NewRelease The Persian Sufi Tradition and Shams al-Dīn Lāhījī Sufi Metamorphosis Mory So, Routledge, 2026 Front Matter, Introduction Preview PDF 🔽 taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.…

Shaykh Ibn 'Arabi (ق) on Secondary Causes And know that every chest contains a heart. As long as the heart remains confined within the chest, it is blind, because the chest acts as a veil over it. If Allah wills to make it seeing, it emerges from its chest and beholds. Causes are the 'chests' of existing things, and existing things are like hearts. As long as an existing thing gazes only at the secondary cause from which it issued, it remains blind to witnessing Allah, who brought it into being. If Allah wills to make it seeing, the being abandons gazing at the secondary cause through which it was brought into existence, and looks instead from the particular, direct aspect that extends from its Lord to it in its creation; [only then] does Allah make it seeing. Therefore, secondary causes are entirely darkness over the eyes of the effects, and in them those who perished among humanity have perished.

Harristotle @harrishanafite

2 months ago

Mulla Fenari (ق) says in 'Misbah al-Uns': "Both Revelation and Reason necessitate that there is no active agent except God": Thus, whoever attributes the action to them [the secondary causes] is a believer in them and a disbeliever in God; and whoever attributes the action to

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What makes this possible is no screens. Once the TV is introduced, it's over (The phone is just a portable version of the TV)

Humanoid History @HumanoidHistory

2 weeks ago

Historian Michael Wood takes us to a coffeehouse in Kars, Turkey, where a traditional bard (aşıks) performs the “Epic of Köroğlu.” As seen in 1979’s “In Search of the Trojan War.”

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Müthiş güzel görüntüler! 1979'da tarihçi Michael Wood, Truva Savaşı'nın İzinde (In Search of the Trojan War) belgeseli için Kars'ta bir kahvehanede halk ozanı Şeref Taşlıova'yı Köroğlu Destanı'nı söylerken kayda alıyor. Wood, Homeros'un anlattığı Truva Savaşı'nın bir efsane mi yoksa tarihsel bir gerçeklik mi olduğunu araştırırken önce Anadolu'daki yaşayan âşıklık geleneğini inceliyor... Taşlıova'nın saz eşliğinde saatlerce ezberden destan anlatışı, yaklaşık 2.700 yıl önce Homeros'un İlyada ve Odysseia'yı lir eşliğinde nasıl icra etmiş olabileceğine dair en etkileyici yaşayan örneklerden biri olarak gösteriliyor...

Humanoid History @HumanoidHistory

2 weeks ago

Historian Michael Wood takes us to a coffeehouse in Kars, Turkey, where a traditional bard (aşıks) performs the “Epic of Köroğlu.” As seen in 1979’s “In Search of the Trojan War.”

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@shedrinkswater Whatever I say in explaining & describing Love, when I arrive at Love, I am ashamed of all that. Though the tongue’s commentary illuminates, Love w/o a tongue is more illuminating still. The pen hurried along in writing, but when it came to Love, the pen split apart upon itself

@shedrinkswater Very true. This is a central theme in Sufi poetry—especially Rumi: that expression always falls short of experience but can serve as a threshold that allows the reader to step deeper into his own deepening experience. The words can’t do it for you but they can point the way.

writing will genuinely change your life more than motivation ever will. not in some cringe “manifest your dream life” way. i mean in a very real, practical way. most people never actually stop long enough to understand what’s going on inside their own head. they just react to life all day. scroll when they feel uncomfortable. distract themselves when things get quiet. jump from one dopamine hit to the next. but writing forces you to slow down for a second and actually look at your thoughts instead of running from them. and the weird part is you usually don’t even realize what you truly think until you start writing it down. writing doesn’t just record your thoughts it creates them. ideas start flowing that you didn’t even know were there. patterns start showing up. emotions start making sense. problems become easier to solve because they’re no longer this giant fog floating around in your head. writing organizes your mind. every high performer, every sharp thinker, every person who just gets it, they all write. It keeps showing up as the common thread. not the expensive stuff. not the complex stuff. Just pen and paper. they write because feelings are vague but words are precise. every time they sit down and search for the exact word to describe what’s inside them, they become a sharper, more powerful communicator. “people follow the person who can say what they mean and mean what they say. writing every day is how you build that muscle until it becomes second nature.” over time, all that accumulated writing becomes a resource you can draw from forever. the more you write, the more material you have to solve problems, connect dots and think bigger. the better you get at putting thoughts into words, the better you get at communicating in general. and honestly, communication controls a huge part of your life. like relationships, opportunities, business, confidence, influence, all of it comes down to how clearly you can express yourself. and no, you don’t need to be some amazing writer either. your grammar doesn’t need to be perfect. nobody cares. half the benefit comes from simply getting thoughts out of your head and onto paper. some of the best writing advice i’ve ever heard was: “write badly. just write.” because the moment you stop trying to sound smart or perfect, your real thoughts finally start coming out. even 30 minutes a day changes something in you. you become calmer because your mind isn’t carrying around a thousand unprocessed thoughts anymore. you become more self aware because you start noticing your own habits and emotional patterns. you become more articulate because you’re practicing turning feelings into language every single day. if you write every day, your future self gets to sit down and read exactly how far you’ve come. i think that’s more valuable than any photo album. who knows maybe one day all that writing becomes a book, a course, something you give your children. at the very least, it becomes proof that you were here, that you grew, that you tried. that’s one of the coolest parts about it. writing lets you watch yourself evolve with time. seriously. start writing. doesn’t matter if it’s in a notebook, your notes app, twitter wherever. just sit, think about your thoughts and write. just sit down for 30 minutes and let your mind speak for once. and watch yourself becoming unstoppable.

All day Astronomy @forallcurious

3 months ago

🚨: Neuroscience considers metacognition the highest form of intelligence..... "the ability to think about your own thinking."

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Every prophet and saint was assigned by the Truth,
 So they speak from the Truth and they guide to the Truth. Whose hearts are engraved and inscribed by the Truth,
 Who are sealed by the seal and are signed by the Truth.

Lines used by the poets misguide from the Truth;
 They don’t do what they say; wander wide from the Truth. Except those who believe what’s prescribed by the Truth,
 And who live by the Truth, and who die by the Truth.

Some say we have art not to die from the Truth.
 He retorted: our art is to die from the Truth. Pay no mind to the drunk and the high on the Truth
 When their tongues start to speak, saying “I am the Truth.”

“Once men sang together round a table in chorus; now one man sings alone, for the absurd reason that he can sing better. If our civilization goes on like this, only one man will laugh, because he can laugh better than the rest.” G.K. Chesterton

"Bir Bedevîye: Nikâh (evlilik) ister misin?" denildi. O da: "Kendimi boşamaya gücüm yetseydi, kendimi boşardım." dedi." ||Tezkiretü'l-Hamdûniyye||

One does not need to read the whole Bible. Most imp. books for cultural literacy are Genesis, Exodus, the Gospels, the Psalms (esp. 23, 137, 51, 90, 139), Ecclesiastes, and Job. Then Isaiah, Daniel, Pauline Letters (esp. 1 Corinthians and Romans), and Revelations.

Joseph Lumbard, شاكر عبد الحق @JosephLumbard

4 weeks ago

The case for knowing the Bible rests not on faith alone. Be one a thoroughgoing skeptic, an adherent of another faith, or wholly indifferent to religion, the Bible remains foundational for any in the Anglophone world who wish to know the world in which they live. To speak

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when i had no awareness of my own state, i was occupied with the flaws and virtues of others; yet when my gaze fell upon my own shortcomings, no one else remained blameworthy in my eyes

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