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"All the prophets and mystics were trying to do when they wrote their books was to wake you up to yourself,“ says Besmel, a dervish from Nosratabad in Iran. Today it almost seems easier to decide against a faith than to devote your life to a spiritual path. At least that would seem to be true for many people in north-western Europe, as evinced by diminishing church membership and the lack of young people in other religious communities.
Electing to follow a spiritual path requires being open to something greater than yourself, not to mention an intensive process of searching. This quest leads through an excess of potential lifestyle options, which may feel good, but remain largely superficial. It leads through entrenched institutions in which all too often structural conservatism becomes the measure of a good life. How can this search for truth ever be a success? In his book Der Schatz unter den Ruinen (Treasure Amid the Ruins) the journalist and practicing Sufi Marian Brehmer tells of his own quest and what he discovered. To do this, he follows in the footsteps of Rumi, the great mystic of Sufism.
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Perhaps if they put back in the Islamic symbolism from the original, it would lead to a better understanding of his time period.
Electing to follow a spiritual path requires being open to something greater than yourself, not to mention an intensive process of searching. This quest leads through an excess of potential lifestyle options, which may feel good, but remain largely superficial. It leads through entrenched institutions in which all too often structural conservatism becomes the measure of a good life. How can this search for truth ever be a success? In his book Der Schatz unter den Ruinen (Treasure Amid the Ruins) the journalist and practicing Sufi Marian Brehmer tells of his own quest and what he discovered. To do this, he follows in the footsteps of Rumi, the great mystic of Sufism.
The hidden treasures of Sufism: In the footsteps of Rumi - Qantara.de
Rumi's poems, though generally stripped of their Islamic symbolism, are hugely popular around the world. Yet Islamic mysticism is still very much at the heart of these verses. Marian Brehmer has spent more than ten years exploring the form Sufism assumes today. By Lisa Neal
Perhaps if they put back in the Islamic symbolism from the original, it would lead to a better understanding of his time period.
