... uld remain lifeless, ephemeral, and ultimately worthless. Fethullah Gülen quotes Abu Yazid Bistami (Bayazid) to say that it is through purity of intention, not through human deeds, that a person goes t ...
... dom that will then spring from that person’s heart and tongue.
Fethullah Gülen quotes Abu Yazid Bistami (Bayazid) to say that it is through sincere intention, not through human deeds, that a person g ...
... fi (d. 227/841), Dhu al-Nun al-Misri (d. 245/859), Abu Yazid al-Bistami (d. 261/874) and Junayd al-Baghdadi (d. 297/909) are illustrious Sufis of this period.
This period gave rise to two distinct curre ...
... nority view has always held that the spiritual guide need not be a living person. Kharaqani, for example, was initiated into the Sufi path by the spirit of Abu Yazid al-Bistami, while ‘Attar was inspired ...
... ondemned ISIL's violence.
Fethullah Gülen's statement, which addressed Kurdish, Turkmen, Arab, Yazidi, Shiite and Sunni families in Iraq, was published in the leading newspapers of Iraq's Kurdish regio ...
... add your name to the list of Yazids and Hajjajs.
Maybe you have already forgotten history; let me give you a recent example you should be familiar with. You frequently describe Gen. Sisi as a coup mak ...
... ow this has caused many conflicts throughout history, also adding that some mischief-makers have tried to sow seeds of dissension between administrators and scholars.
One example of this was Yazid I, ...
... nt his childhood in different Sufi lodges, I occasionally witnessed some people make such remarks. For example, some people quote out of context a saying ascribed to Bayazid al-Bastami, “the murshid of ...
... lications and prayers reach the Throne of Mercy and are welcomed. Truthfulness is as effective as the "elixir" of God's Greatest Name. When asked about the Greatest Name, Bayazid al-Bistami answered: ...
... ife deprived of any morality taking refuge in legal immunities; we see the sons of Yazid and Shimr[1] who exploit to the bottom their self-proclaimed birthright immunities claiming "right belongs to the power ...
... ere is nothing but God in my cloak!", "Glory be to me, how grand I am in respect of my essential qualities!", and "I am the Truth!"—which were uttered by Bayazid al-Bistami,[4] Junayd al-Baghdadi,[5] and ...
... your children. Will we share with you in the reward?" The Prophet praised Asma bint Yazid for asking this question and answered: "understand o woman, and tell the other women behind you that a wife's lo ...
... athic locutions' that such famous Sufis as Bayazid al-Bistami, al-Husayn b. Mansur al-Hallaj al-Mansur and Muhy al-Din ibn al-Arabi, while he warns against it to be followed as it opens a deviation fro ...
... treme cases make it impossible. Secondly, the majority (around 80%) of the Kurds are Sunni Muslim. However, there are some other Kurdish groups belong to the other monotheistic religions such as 'Chri ...
... thin Islam and its relevance in his thought. Many of the persons quoted and referred to of this category, especially early Sufis such as Bayazid al-Bistami (d. 784), his contemporary Ibrahim b. Adham or ...
... as Hasan Al-Basri (d. 728), Ibrahim b. Adham (d.777), Shaqiq of Balkh (d. 810), Al-Muhasibi (d. 837), Dhun-noon of Egypt (d. 859), Abu Yazid al-Bistami (d. 874) and Junaid of Baghdad (d. 910) are considere ...
... station of Divine Oneness with His Names and Attributes throughout the universe, they can express the state they fall into with pleasure, like Bayazid al-Bistami, who said: "Glory be to me, how exalted ...
... g to this way." Abu Sulayman al-Darani[2] warns: "I admit the truth of whatever occurs to the heart only provided it is confirmed by the Book and the Sunna." Abu Yazid al-Bistami[3] admonishes: "I strug ...
... Greeks, Circassians, Kurds, Alevis, Yazidis, Assyrians and Arabs all together. Only by looking at the kitchen that feeds us every day will we see how much "ours" is each of one of us. Is there anyone ...
... Sainthood, in the words of Bayazid al-Bistami, is not to allow any desire to be known by others, despite one's deep and continuous worship and obedience to God and one's extraordinary care in fulfillin ...