Working to protect the Quran and women’s rights | News | dailyuw.com

Posted on May 6, 2018 by Imam Salim Chishti

Editor’s Note: [I am happy to see this article and happy that UW is helping the cause! But I must just clarify one thing from the beginning of the article – there have always been women who have done serious and valuable Qur’an interpretation. From the Prophet’s (saw) time even to the present day. The fact that in certain countries/cultures women are demeaned and given second class status is not Islamic at all. So this resurgence of women’s position in Islam is a harder struggle for women in those cultures and they should be encouraged and applauded for their bravery and their knowledge.] Continue reading →

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Mystic Mantra: Spiritual illumination of Wahdat-ul-Wujood

Posted on April 26, 2018 by Imam Salim Chishti

Asian Age, April 26, 2018
Ghulam Rasool Dehlvi

The Sufi philosophy of Wahdat is actually derived from Tawheed, the basic Islamic tenet of monotheism.

India’s mystics — both rishi-munis and Sufi saints — were able to go beyond the man-made religious boundaries only because they practiced Advaita or Wahdat-ul-Wujood (unity of being) at an experiential level and not just in academic discourses. But today we are deprived of that divine bliss as we engage merely in intellectual exercises on the spiritual experiences like the unity of existence (wahdat-ul-wujood), universal brotherhood (ukhuwat-e-insani) and a deeper personal relationship with the Almighty (wisal-e Ilahi). Continue reading →

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Kosovo’s Sufi Dervish order celebrates the new year, spring

Posted on March 24, 2018 by Imam Salim Chishti

Source: Kosovo’s Sufi Dervish order celebrates the new year, spring

For an Islamic dervish order in southern Kosovo, it’s time for the annual celebration to mark the new year, the birthday of the sect’s founder and spring.

That means holding a religious ceremony which includes hypnotic chanting, swaying and the piercing of male members’ cheeks with long metal needles.

Prizren, Kosovo’s medieval and most religiously mixed town, is home to one of the country’s small Sufi Dervish orders, which numbers about 5,000. They are part of the estimated 200,000 Sufis among Kosovo’s roughly 2 million people. Continue reading →

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Dreams in Islam – Part 2 – Prophecy

Posted on February 19, 2018 by Imam Salim Chishti

bismillah boatThis is a new publication that can be found on this blog or read it as a PDF file.

PDF file: Dreams in Islam – Part 2

Publication page: https://imamsalim.com/publications/dreams-in-islam-part-2-prophesy/

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Imam Salim

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Sufis’ teachings – The Nation – Guest Writer

Posted on February 18, 2018 by Imam Salim Chishti

dome-travel5Wonderful stories about Hz Nizamuddin. The picture is of the dargah in the Basti and is not from the article.

GUEST WRITER Syed Ahmad Suqlain Haider

“If any would lay thorns in your way, do not lay thorns in his way because if you tended to lay thorns in his way, then the whole valley will be filled with thorns.” These words was uttered by such a personality who passed away from this word 700 hundred years ago but even ,today, he is reigning on the hearts of the people and people feel honour and proud to attend his tomb, and whose name is Seydna Nazam-ud-Din Aulia. His lap always remained open and he was always ready to serve the humanity. Continue reading →

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