My Muslim Calendar Project

***** April 1 ***** Neglect not your time, nor use it haphazardly; on the contrary you should bring yourself to account. Structure your litanies and other practices during each day and night. This is how to bring about the spiritual blessing (baraka) in each period. If each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, Be not like the deceived fools who are joyous because each day their wealth increases while their life grows ever shorter. Al-Ghazali ***** April 2 ***** If the first inward thought is not warded off, it will generate a desire, then the desire will generate a wish, and the wish will generate an intention, and the intention will generate the action, and the action will result in ruin and divine wrath. So evil must be cut off at its root, which is when it is simply a thought that crosses the mind, from which all the other things follow on. Al-Ghazali ***** April 3 ***** The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill...

***** March 18 ***** To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate. Al-Ghazali ***** March 19 ***** Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness. Al-Ghazali ***** March 20 ***** Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation. Al-Ghazali ***** March 21 ***** Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls. Al-Ghazali ***** March 22 ***** Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves. Al-Ghazali ***** March 23 ***** Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance Al-Ghazali ***** March 24 ***** Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the ligh...

***** March 1 ***** How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires? Ibn Arabi ***** March 2 ***** Do not praise your own faith exclusively so that you disbelieve all the rest. If you do this you will miss much good. Nay, you will miss the whole truth of the matter. God, the Omniscient and the Omnipresent, cannot be confined to any one creed, for He says in the Quran, wheresoever ye turn, there is the face of Allah. Everybody praises what he knows. His God is his own creature, and in praising it, he praises himself. Which he would not do if he were just, for his dislike is based on ignorance. Ibn Arabi ***** March 3 ***** God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man. Ibn Arabi ***** March 4 ***** My heart can take on any form: A meadow for gazelles, A cloister for monks, For the idols, sacred ground, Ka'ba for the circling pilgrim, The tables of the Torah, The sc...

***** Inayat Khan, the founder of the Sufi Order in the West and a teacher of Universal Sufism, died on this day in 1927. ***** Inayat Rehmat Khan Pathan  (Urdu:  حضرت عنایت رحمت خان پٹھان‎ ) (b. July 5, 1882, Baroda, Bombay Presidency, British India – d. February 5, 1927, New Delhi, British India)  was the founder of the Sufi Order in the West in 1914 (London) and teacher of Universal Sufism.  Khan  initially came to the West  as a Northern Indian classical musician,  having received the honorific "Tansen"  from the Nizam of Hyderabad,  but he soon turned to the introduction and transmission of Sufi  thought and practice. Later, in 1923, the Sufi Order of the London period was dissolved into a new organization, formed under Swiss law, called the "International Sufi Movement".  Inayat Khan's message of divine unity (tawhid) focused on the themes of love, harmony, and beauty. He taught that blind adherence to any boo...