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,...
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...
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...
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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