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April 2018

April 09, 2018

Coming Home to the Sufi Kitchen

What would life be like if you all you had ever eaten was dirt? That’s...

March 2018

March 09, 2018

Book Review: Rumi Comes to America

Author: Bruce Miller Publisher: Miller eMedia What happens when a mercurial Englishman living in 1970's...

February 2018

February 09, 2018

Thanking Big

I’d just finished getting my hair cut and styled at the one salon in London...

February 02, 2018

Patience: The Key to Joy

Patience has been on my mind a lot recently, perhaps because I realise it’s a...

October 2017

October 25, 2017

Bob Dylan and the Beloved

When I ask myself who or what the Beloved is in Sufi terminology, I have...

April 2017

April 28, 2017

Complex Trauma and Spiritual Healing Power of Sufism

Since I was a 13-year-old spending recesses in the schoolyard composing poems inspired by my...

April 20, 2017

On Saints as Friends of the Divine

Saints were everywhere in my Catholic childhood. Their haloed, beseeching visages appeared in the unlikeliest...

April 04, 2017

What the Heart Knows

My wife and I were recently invited to lead another service at our local Unitarian...

March 2017

March 27, 2017

The Mercy of the Ailing Body

One evening a few weeks before my 25th birthday, I alighted from a train in...

March 09, 2017

The Most Important Thing I Learned From Our Murshid

He could have been someone's grandfather from Sicily, dressed in a three-piece suit, walking with...

January 2017

January 27, 2017

Mother Nature and the 99 Names

One of the aims of our new book The 99 Names of God is to...

January 13, 2017

The Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and His Battles, Then and Now

Dearest M, My heart is heavy as I write this. Not because of anything between...

December 2016

December 27, 2016

America of the Heart: Whitman and Rumi

As we enter deeper into the introspection of the winter months and America continues to...

November 2016

November 24, 2016

Guests of Love: Leonard Cohen and the Sufis (Part 2)

One of the greatest musical performances I have ever witnessed was one wet summer evening...

November 03, 2016

Lessons on living from my late uncle

Turning on a tune by Egyptian legend Abdel Halim Hafez, my sister Mandy handed her...

September 2016

September 15, 2016

Forgiving my reflection

Sufi stories and poetry often allude to mirrors. Not the ones that immediately come to...

August 2016

August 16, 2016

Turning to the Quran: Reflections on Learning to Whirl

When we think of a whirling dervish, we might automatically think of somebody in...

July 2016

July 05, 2016

Is Love Shelved Under “L”?

My heart knocked against my ribs as I took the stairs two at a time....

July 01, 2016

My Times With Rumi

My first encounter with Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi was many years ago in Boise, Idaho....

June 2016

June 17, 2016

The Saints: Reviving Hearts

The word “saint” seems to have accumulated some negative associations in the West. When we...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

Of Saints and Matchmakers

As I was growing up, Islam’s benevolent female saints existed in my imagination as otherworldly...

May 20, 2016

Making Love: Leonard Cohen and the Sufis

My journey to Islam started with Leonard Cohen. In his album, Recent Songs, Cohen writes...

May 03, 2016

How I Fell in Love with the Prophet

I knew very little about the Prophet (peace be upon him) before coming to Islam....

April 2016

April 21, 2016

Seeking the Kaaba Within

I was fully aware that within seconds my body would be drawn into a mass...