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This looks like a wonderful festival in Mumbai, maybe I get to go there next year, insha’allah!
The pain of separation from the creator is the core of Sufi poetry and its music seeks to unite listeners with the divine. The National Centre for the Performing Arts, NCPA,India’s premiere art and culture institution, presented their annual three-day Sufi Music Festival called Sama’a: The Mystic Ecstasy from November 17.
via Annual Sufi Music Festival.
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Sufis march against Taliban – Asia – Al Jazeera English
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Thousands protest in Lahore against what they describe as “Talibanisation” of Pakistan.
via Sufis march against Taliban – Asia – Al Jazeera English.
Soon there will be tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands, insha’allah. And for those of you who complain that Muslims do not protest against these tactics I ask you – how many western newspapers or networks are covering this? These kinds of protests are happening all over the Muslim world but receive little, if any coverage in the west.
And the role that the Pakistani government is playing in suppressing it – with the US trying to woo Pakistan into its own brand of fighting terrorism – which is not working very well – is it any wonder that Pakistan is doing that? Playing both sides against one another. At the same time they are protesting US drone strikes, they also undermine the very internal grass roots movements that could cut off the Taliban influences at the local levels. What a travesty.
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