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A Sip from the Fatiha

A Sip from the Fatiha

by Karima Vargas Bushnell | Dec 4, 2018 | Ask A Sufi, Conversations on Spirituality

Al-Fatiha – The Opening Door, the Opening Chapter, the Door to All That Is, to All Mysteries and Subtleties (With apologies for the necessary but breathless italics, exclamation points, parentheses and multiple question marks. The whole multiverse is breathless,...
Love Remains:  Response to Sufi Mosque Massacre in Egypt

Love Remains: Response to Sufi Mosque Massacre in Egypt

by Karima Vargas Bushnell | Nov 29, 2017 | Ask A Sufi, Conversations on Spirituality

Over three hundred Sufis dead in Egypt, killed while praying in their mosque or trying to escape. I thought a while about how to respond, besides the same old, “This is not Islam, this is not what Islam teaches.” Suddenly I wrote — and it stayed in...
Bridging a Gap

Bridging a Gap

by Karima Vargas Bushnell | Nov 29, 2017 | Ask A Sufi, Conversations on Spirituality

In the 1970’s, there was a seemingly unbridgeable canyon between the religion of Islam and western universalist Sufism: the successors of Hazrat Inayat Khan, and the Dances of Universal Peace. As an early convert to Islam from that generation of seekers, I...
“La Ilaha illah-Llah” – You Can Take it Two Ways

“La Ilaha illah-Llah” – You Can Take it Two Ways

by Karima Vargas Bushnell | Nov 18, 2017 | Ask A Sufi, Conversations on Spirituality

This central statement of Islam, the primary tenet which forms half the shahada, can be taken in two ways which are opposite and can lead to diametrically opposed behaviors. I’m writing here to defend one interpretation and cast doubt upon the other. Literally,...

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