Sufi masters have always used metaphors to convey deep spiritual messages. An old Sufi story illustrates how man may travel to distant lands to seek the treasure of God, not knowing that the ...

At night, they demolished a part of the 200-year-old shrine. On Wednesday night ... Maghrib prayers to mark the 179th urs of Hazrat Shah Sufi Syed Kalu Shah (RA). “Following the Milad, a ...

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In November 2016, they beheaded 98-year-old Sheikh Suleiman Abu Harraz, a leading Sufi figure, after kidnapping him from his house in the town of El-Arish. The al-Rawda mosque in the town of Bir ...

bringing the 700-year-old Sufi musical tradition of qawwali to the stage recently. “Sufi music is powerful and moving with its universal themes of love, devotion and self-discovery. We wanted to ...