Examples of using Sufis in English and their translations into Turkish
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And do you know what to expect of these Sufis?
It is dangerous for Sufis to enter Omar's city.
You're just gonna look like a bunch of Sufis on speed.
The Sufis have a key, Lucy, to another world.
That's when she started talking about Morocco and the Sufis.
You Sufis chant Allah's name ignoring creed and prayer.
Each one of us is a planet spinning in ecstasy. The Sufis say.
The Sufis say each one of us is a planet spinning in ecstasy.
TJ have also been accused of insufficient orthodoxy and association with Sufis.
I learned with certainty that it is above all the Sufis who walk on the road of God.
The Sufis say,"Knowledge that takes you not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.
This is what happens when you come to Morocco for a good time you get married andjoin the Sufis.
In 1964, The Sufis appeared, published by Doubleday, with a long introduction by Robert Graves.
The Indian philosopher andmystic Rajneesh, later known as Osho, commenting on Shah's work, described The Sufis as"just a diamond.
The Sufis have developed their own elaborate rituals and techniques and, here in Turkey, they even dance.
Although there is no evidence to suggest that Muhammad followed these rituals, the Sufis see him as an inspiration for their spiritual experience.
Like Shah's other books on the topic, The Sufis was conspicuous for avoiding terminology that might have identified his interpretation of Sufism with traditional Islam.
He considered practical work the means through which a seeker could do self-work,in line with the traditional adoption by Sufis of ordinary professions, through which they earned their livelihoods and"worked" on themselves.
In his book The Sufis, the Afghan scholar Idries Shah suggested that Dhul-Nun al-Misri might have been the origin of the character Hiram Abiff in the masonic Master Mason ritual.
Shah taught that the human being could acquire newsubtle sense organs in response to need: Sufis believe that, expressed in one way, humanity is evolving towards a certain destiny.
Studies of Sufism include institutions and activities, such as lectures and seminars,which provide information about Sufism and act as a cultural liaison between the Sufis and the public.
Graves took a supportive interest in Shah's writing career and encouraged him to publish an authoritative treatment of Sufism for a Western readership, along with thepractical means for its study; this was to become The Sufis.
One Muslim group, though, the Sufis, claim to try to replicate Muhammad's mystical experience of God through intense prayer, the chanting of God's name and singing verses from the Qur'an.
In 1980, Professor Khalilullah Khalili, former Poet Laureate of Afghanistan, praised the work of his"compatriot and friend the Arif(Sufi Illuminate) The Sayed Idries Shah", saying"Especially to be appreciated are his brilliant and important services in revealing the celestial inspirations andinner thoughts of the great teachers of Islam and Sufis.
The Afghanistan News reported that The Sufis"covers important Afghan contributions to world philosophy and science" and was"the first fully-authoritative book on Sufism and the human development system of the dervishes.
So essential is this more rarefied evolution that our future depends upon it.-Idries Shah, The Sufis Shah dismissed other Eastern and Western projections of Sufism as"watered down, generalised or partial"; he included in this not only Khan's version, but also the overtly Muslim forms of Sufism found in most Islamic countries.
For this reason, most of the work he produced from The Sufis onwards was psychological in nature, focused on attacking the nafs-i-ammara, the false self:"I have nothing to give you except the way to understand how to seek- but you think you can already do that.
