The Film -Bab'Aziz-

Happy Saturdays my lovely Friends, as salaam...

Here is an enchanting and parabolic film about the beauty, grace, humility, and love of the 

Sufi path of the heart.

Here you are…

The Prophet

Es Selam... my lovely Friends,

Cuma mubarak, in a such beautiful, shiny day; I'll share with you some shiny, luminously words :)

Today's subject is a famous book, The Prophet by Khalil Gibran. Here is a famous expression of him when starting,

"Jesus on one side of my chest, and Mohammed on the other."

KHalil Gibran

Lets go on, then :) Bismillahirrahmanirrahim...

The Prophet...

It is a treasure, isn't it :)

Divine Love & Art

Music, dance, love: Zhikr and Sema...
Es-salâm...

Have you ever felt a feeling of beauty that comes from the depth of your inside ?  

When you think, see, hear, smell or taste something; maybe it was a song, colorfullness of a flower, rhythm of a bird song, softness of a baby face, murmur of a joyfull cat, maybe it was excellness of the arrangement of a grape gains, maybe just thinking about just like these examples and etc:) 

Have you realized the changes of your body parts towards these experiences? 

Think about this...

Our body like a mirror in a point of view and reflects the alterations on our spirit situation.  In the other hand, our body is a detector on the experimental world that collects lots of sensory perceptions, inputs for our inside world. 

Art reveals when you bring out manifestly these effects of your spirit and soul. And art has very important role in religion, belief,  tradition subjects in the world... Islamic Mystic Tradition also has been fed with art and puts lots of methodical practices. Zhikr and Sema expressly, a kind of zhikr,  are subjects of our article...

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"Listen to my words, from a different place I will speak. 
What the dervish needs is love for God the Guide. 
Whatever the lover has is sacrificed for the Beloved's sake. 
Sema is a joy, a remedy for the soul, food for the spirit."
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Here is the article my friends...

Fifth Mountain

Hi all! Assalamun aleykum ve Rahmetullah... 
Today i'll share with you the book Fifth Mountain, whose author is the famous guy Paulo Coelho. Most of us should have read his famous novel, Simyaci in Turkish, The Alchemist in English... 

I think the book, Fifth Mountain, is just for you if you're in a rough time of your life, gives messages via difficulties that Ilyas, Elijah, prophet had come across. So the perfect time for reading when an uphill path comes:)  Life is alike riding bike said someone; so you should do something on your bike brakes and your legs on the way of uphill :) If you do nothing, then you know what will happen, if you experienced riding a bike...
Here you are :)

Bismillah...

Bismillah al rahman al rahim

    "In the name of God, most Gracious, most Compassionate".

Welcome to my intellectual diary,

I'm from Istanbul, Turkey.  Nowadays start to live in Nederlands... Lots of things are changing in my world, in my life; at the beginning language of course. So my blog is in English for following modification and keep up with this modification and my intellectual world...

So;

This diary is for my own experiences and readings about life, religion, islamic sufizm, islamic art, etc.. Actually it is generated from thinking my own favor and maybe someone who needs english translations of Turkish articles, passages, books can get benefit from here.

Please feel free sending me any Islamic/Turkish sufizm, Islamic/Turkish art, Turkish literature etc passages in Turkish for translating, speaking on, thinking together...

I'm grateful to anyone who inspires me, at first to Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi hz...

One of his rubai is here:

Walk !

Do favor!

Time remembers this favor, it never forgets favor of good people...

Everybody passes away...

Their estate, all of stuff stay here, at that world...

So yours also will stay here...

Leaving favor is better than leaving estate...

I hope that all of writings be favor and stay here...

With love,

Zehra