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Gratitude, Dhikr, And Serving Others
Send us Fan Mail Good things happen, and our first instinct is to question them. We push them away with overthinking, suspicion, and that quiet feeling of “I don’t deserve this.” We take the opposite approach here: say Alhamdulillah, let the gift arrive, and keep the heart open long enough for gratitude to do its work. Then we ask the harder follow-up: how do you prove that gratitude is real? By…
Send us Fan Mail Anger, desire, and heartbreak can feel like they run the show, right up until a single breath changes the whole direction. We start with a deceptively simple question: if I swap an angry habit for prayer or zikr, am I healing or just burying it? From there, we build a clear, practical strategy for real change, including how to define “success,” how to practice before you get…
Send us Fan Mail A single poem can snap us out of the small story we live in. We start with Hafez, then move straight into a hard, honest theme: spiritual tests. The Quran promises we’ll be tried through fear, hunger, and loss, but the question that matters is how we meet the moment. We talk about surrender to Allah as a lived practice, not an abstract idea, and how humility, gratitude, and…
Send us Fan Mail Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr , Sohbet , spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software and hardware to get this to you.…
Send us Fan Mail Ever wish life came with margins full of notes? We walk through a practical way to read the Book of Life—decoding the outer signs you can see and the inner signals you can feel—so guidance stops hiding in plain sight. Starting with one burning question, we map how energy exchange shows up in everyday places: sunlight to leaf, raw food to shared meal, emotion across a family, ideas…
Send us Fan Mail Discussion about what it means to actually KNOW something - that which cannot be taken away. Also, learning about who you are. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr , Sohbet , spiritual counselling and healing…
Send us Fan Mail Looking at the meaning of, "Learning how to learn". Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr , Sohbet , spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental,…
Send us Fan Mail Taking a look out what Insan-i-Kamil (fully integrated human being) looks like, from a more contemporary point of view. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr , Sohbet , spiritual counselling and healing services. We…
Send us Fan Mail Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr , Sohbet , spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software and hardware to get this to you.…
Send us Fan Mail We discuss the purpose of culture, and some of the writings of Abdul Qadir al Jilani- one of our Pirs of Qadiri -Rfa'i Tariqa Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr , Sohbet , spiritual counselling and healing…