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Interview with Frithjof Schuon - on Spirituality
The Sermon of All Creation: Christians on Nature
Where to look to "see God Everywhere"?
A Definition of the Perennial Philosophy
Exploring "Timeless in Time" - a biography of Sri Ramana Maharshi
Who was Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa)?
Books about Buddhism
Interview with Frithjof Schuon - on Art
William C. Chittick explores "The Sufi Doctrine of Rumi"
Treasures of the World's Religions
Slideshows
William C. Chittick explores "The Sufi Doctrine of Rumi"
An Introduction
Who was Rumi?
Sufism and Islam
God and the World
Universal Man
The Fall
The Trust
Union with God
The Nafs
Knowledge and Method
The Limitations of Rational Knowledge
slide 8 of 11
“Love came, and went again,
Like blood within my flesh and vein;
From self Love set me free
And with the Friend completed me.
Only remains my name;
My being’s every particle
The Friend took for His claim,
And so the Friend became my whole.”
—Rumi
“The path leading to union is long and difficult and has been described in a variety of ways by different Sufis. For our purposes here it is sufficient to limit ourselves to a consideration of two main steps on the Path; steps which are an application of the
Shahadah
to the spiritual travail. The first of these is
fana’,
‘annihilation of self,’ which derives from the ‘no’ of the
Shahadah
: ‘There is
no
god but God,’ there is
no
reality but the Reality. Man’s self-existence is not real, since he is not God; therefore the illusion that it is real must be annihilated. The second is
baqa’,
‘subsistence in God,’ which springs from the ‘but’: There is no reality
but
the Reality. Since God alone is real, man’s real Self is God. Man attains to Reality only by passing away from his illusory self and subsiding in his real Self.”
“Union with God is complete absorption in Him.”
—William C. Chittick
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