The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi William C. Chittick, Rumi
Publisher: State University of New York Press

After a general overview of the tradition, he draws upon the words of some of the greatest Sufi writers – among them Ibn Arabi, Baha Walad and Rumi himself – to give a fresh and revealing perspective on the teachings and . Rumi also teaches that in Sufism, there are The Sufi, through these stages of purification, travels the inner way, the 'Spiritual Path'. For female mystics, especially freed slaves or unmarried women, to have greater autonomy over their lives, the opinion that women had less spiritual capacity than men remained a strong opinion in many historical Sufi teachings. Jul 11, 2013 - Rumi, quoted in William C. Mar 12, 2011 - This is the Quran's rationale for the extraordinary diversity of religious teachings and practices. Chittick, Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi (NY: SUNY Press, 1983), 141. Jul 20, 2009 - Their aim was to purify and spiritualize Islam from within, to give it a deeper, mystical interpretation, and infuse into it a spirit of love and liberty. May 17, 2012 - “After long struggle on the path of discipline and self-purificaton, the seekers may be opened up to the effusions of divine love, mercy, and knowledge…This is the stage of true intoxication, but it is not the .. Sep 22, 2011 - Rumi teaches us that our worst enemy is hiding within ourselves, and that enemy is our Naafs or false ego(نفس). Rumi describes our heart as a mirror. Therefore, Nafs or False Ego(نفس) equals any inclination which springs from disregard of love, harmony, beauty, and being unconcerned with well being of all others. Jun 21, 2013 - My search for the meaning of life had led me through the world's great religions, to the teachings of Ramakrishna, the initiation of the mystical Mahayana teacher Thuksey Rinpoche, the community of the great Sufi mystic Eva De of Ars the power to go and heal day after day after day in his tiny parish, that relationship that drove Francis into the arms of a divine love that enabled him to re-experience the crucifixion—that relationship was not some poetic, tender fiction. Drawing on their own experiences, the Sufi masters describe the inner workings of the path of love. Translated in William Chittick, The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983), 273. Chittick in The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983, p.140] My heart thrills to these verses. Jun 28, 2010 - Rumi, Diwan 2730, translated by William C. Jul 31, 2011 - Further, this polarizing conception of womanhood between the embodied female and the idealized feminine divine parallels the Sufi's simultaneous struggle against the lower-self, nafs, and focused path towards the love and mercy of God. There are also fundamentalists who view Sufism as a set of deviations, based on teachings that stray from the original writings and sayings of the Prophet, as codified in the Qu'ran and the hadith (the sayings of the Prophet). Then it will show you its face without any need for you to draw aside its veil.