“Windows To Spirituality”
What Is Privacy? Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves, or information about themselves, and thereby express themselves selectively. The boundaries and content of what is considered private differ among cultures and individuals. When something is private to a person, it usually means that something is inherently...
How Can We Save Our Lives In The Hereafter? Being assaulted by the deceptive, seductive amusements of the present time, a group of young people were asking: “How can we save our lives in the Hereafter?” The grave is there and no one can deny it. Whether they want to...
How Can I Get Full Satisfaction In My Life? This article covers the answer to the question: “How Can I Get Full Satisfaction In My Life?” God is eternal, so are His Mercy and Munificence. An Eternal One manifests Himself eternally and requires the existence of eternal beings. His eternal...
Fruitful Life This article covers the answer to the question: “How to live a fruitful life?“ O my dear friends! Do you want to make your brief and useless life immortal, long, beneficial, and fruitful? Since to so want is demanded by humanity, spend your life on the way of...
Life And Science This article covers Life And Science according to A. C. Morrison. Life* is a riddle but transparent. It is a riddle in that scientists, who cannot explain it with material causes, are unable to discover its origin. It is transparent because it shows or reflects a creative power....
Self-confidence The concept of self-confidence, self-assurance in one’s personal judgment, ability, power, etc. One’s self confidence increases from experiences of having mastered particular activities. It is a positive belief that in the future one can generally accomplish what one wishes to do. Self-confidence is not the same as self-esteem, which is an...
Scruples O one afflicted with the sickness of scruples! Do you know what your scruples resemble? A calamity! The more importance they are given, the more they grow. If you give them no importance, they die away. If you see them as big, they grow bigger. If you see them...
Understanding Of The Mystery Of Life This article covers the mystery of life. The First consists of making known to you all the varieties of all the bounties from the True Bestower, and causing you to offer Him thanks. Be aware of this and offer Him thanks and worship. The...
Five Degrees Of Life Human life has five degrees of life. Here are the degrees of life: The First Level of Life is that of our life, which is very restricted. The Second Level of Life is that of the lives of Khidr and Elijah, which is free to an...
Definition Of Life This article covers a detailed definition of life according to Bediuzzaman Said Nursi. Life is: the most important aim of the universe; and its greatest result; and its most brilliant light; and its subtlest leaven; and its distilled essence; and its most perfect fruit; and its most...
The Purpose Of Life This article covers the answer to the question: What Is The Purpose Of Life? Do you suppose purpose of your life is restricted to following the good life according to the requisites of civilization, and, if you will excuse the expression, to gratifying the physical appetites?...
Divine Purpose Of Human Races This article covers the answer to the question: What Is The Divine Purpose In Creation Of Human Races? “O mankind! We created you from a single [pair] of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that you may know each other...
Religious Violence Religious violence is a term that covers phenomena where religion is either the subject or the object of violent behavior. Religious violence is violence that is motivated by, or in reaction to, religious precepts, texts, or doctrines of a target or attacker. It includes violence against religious institutions,...
The Reality Of The Worship My dear friend! If you want to understand a little about the talisman of the wisdom of the world and the riddle of man’s creation and the mystery of the reality of the worship, then consider this short comparison together with my own soul. Once...
The All-Beautiful Names Of God Since the time of the Last Messenger, upon him be peace and blessings, the All-Beautiful Names of God, exalted is His Majesty, have been a right-guiding source for knowing and recognizing the Divine Being in accordance with His Attributes of Majesty and Grace, and for...
God’s Attributes Of Glory Like His Essence, God’s Attributes of Glory are eternal, having neither a beginning nor an end. According to the religious methodology or the basic principles of religion, God’s Attributes consist of certain transcending and blessed concepts—whose transcendence and blessedness come from the Being Whom they describe;...
Putting An End To A Long Journey “Putting An End To A Long Journey” is the last article of Journeying on Sufi Path in Emerald Hills of the Heart book series. Human beings have an exceptional place among creation; they are travelers whose journey of life passes through the Realm of...
Ta‘ayyunat (Identifications) And What Lies Before This article explains the meaning of Ta‘ayyunat (Identifications) and What Lies Before in Sufism. Literally meaning coming forward, emerging and being made specific, in Sufi terminology ta‘ayyun means that the different natures or different essential characteristics inherent in the Divine Being manifest themselves with...
Lawhun Mahfuz (The Supreme Preserved Tablet) and What Lies Before This article explains the meaning of Metaphysical Realms Lawhun Mahfuz (The Supreme Preserved Tablet) and What Lies Before in Sufism. Lawh is literally a board to write on, and the Lawhun Mahfuz is the immaterial board or tablet on which God...
Metaphysical Realms This article explains the meaning of Metaphysical Realms such as The ‘Arsh (The Supreme Throne of God), The Kursiyy (The Supreme Seat of God), Sidratu’l-Muntaha (The Lote-Tree of the Furthest Limit), and Al-Baytu’l-Ma‘mur (The Prosperous House) in Sufism. The ‘Arsh (The Supreme Throne of God) Literally meaning an arbor,...
