Sufi - Dargah Shrine

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Dargah Sufi Islamic Shrine

***** Location: India
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Explanation

A Dargah (Persian: درگاه‎ dargâh or درگه dargah)
is a Sufi Islamic shrine built over the grave of a revered religious figure, often a Sufi saint or dervish. Local Muslims may visit a shrine as a form of pilgrimage known as ziyarat. Dargahs are often associated with Sufi meeting rooms and hostels, called khanqah.
They usually include a mosque, meeting rooms, Islamic religious schools (madrassas), residences for a teacher or caretaker, hospitals, and other buildings for community purposes.


The Dargah of Haji Ali, in Mumbai.

The term dargah is derived from a Persian word which can mean, among other uses, "portal" or "threshold". Some Sufi and other Muslims believe that dargahs are portals by which they can invoke the deceased saint's intercession and blessing (as per tawassul). Still others hold a less supernatural view of dargahs, and simply visit as a means of paying their respects to deceased pious individuals or to pray at the sites for perceived spiritual benefits.
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Sufism
Sufism or taṣawwuf (Arabic: تصوّف‎) is defined by its adherents as the inner, mystical dimension of Islam. A practitioner of this tradition is generally known as a ṣūfī (صُوفِيّ). Sufis believe they are practicing Ihsan (perfection of worship) as revealed by Gabriel to Muhammad,
"Worship and serve Allah as you are seeing Him and while you see Him not yet truly He sees you."

Classical Sufi scholars have defined Sufism as "a science whose objective is the reparation of the heart and turning it away from all else but God".
Alternatively, in the words of the Darqawi Sufi teacher Ahmad ibn Ajiba, "a science through which one can know how to travel into the presence of the Divine, purify one's inner self from filth, and beautify it with a variety of praiseworthy traits".
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Sufi Haiku / Haqqu

Be still and know
The veils were lifted
in my stillness.

Poverty of the Heart
I have nothing
and I want nothing.

Sadiq M. Alam. MysticSaint
source : www.mysticsaint.info


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HAIKU

Dargah—
two eyes from the veil
cast down in prayer

Shared by Mandeep Maan
Joys of Japan, July 2012


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- Shared by Rosie Mann -
Joys of Japan, August 2012



Rumi
(30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273)
was a 13th-century Persian Muslim poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic.
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sufi song~
a glance of saffron sun
between the clouds

- Shared by Sarbjit Singh Khaira -
Joys of Japan, September 2012



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sufi moon
call of the muezzin
reaches the sky

- Shared by Asni Amin -
Joys of Japan, 2012




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