If speech is silver, silence is gold. How many times have we heard this proverb? Scholars believe that the proverb originated ...

The Kashmir valley has nurtured many women Sufi mystics and poets. Lalla Ded stands out among them. Lalla Ded’s life took many turns, and along the way, she earned several monikers – Lalla ...

Prolific chanter Amer El-Touni, founder of the Sufi chanting group Egyptian Mawlawiyah, died Sunday in Cairo at the age of 57 ...

In today’s fast-paced world, inner peace often feels like a distant dream. We are constantly bombarded by stress, ...

I DON’T care about haram or halal. I’d rather extinguish the fire in hell and burn heaven so that people could start loving God for no other reason than love.’ This statement, as quoted by Shams ...

Muslim hard-liners’ threats have forced a shrine of the mystic Sufi branch of Islam to abandon the customary devotional music and dance program during its annual celebration. The shrine dedicated to ...

The evening came alive with soulful Sufi gatherings, adding an ethereal touch of love, heritage, and art to the celebrations. Renowned singer Bismil, who has redefined Sufi music with his magical ...

NORMATIVE Sufism is a genuine Islamic phenomenon as the Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) prophetic consciousness was founded upon very definite, vivid and powerful mystic experiences. From the inner ...

The intersection of Sufism and Indian traditions has resulted in some of the most spiritually fulfilling and culturally ...

AR Rahman says with Ustad Zakir Hussain, Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan and Pandit Shivkumar Sharma gone, he is worried about the ...

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan—Trad Album” was all it said on the cover. “I was always browsing, and I would spend a lot of afternoons after lunch there,” Mullan says. “I knew that would be the ultimate find—a ...

I’ve been soaped and scrubbed in bathhouses in Morocco and Spain many times, yet I’d never experienced one of the most famous ...