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Çavdarhisar Haber
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Çavdarhisar Haber
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Chechens perform Sufi Zikr
From the Series - Grozny: Nine Cities - Olga Kravets, Maria Morina, and Oksana Yushko
"The Concourse of the Birds", folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds), painting by Habiballah of Sava (Iranian, active ca. 1590–1610), author: Farid al-Din `Attar (Iranian, Nishapur ca. 1142–ca. 1220 Nishapur), ca. 1600, Isfahan, Iran; ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper (The Met)
In Sufism, the "Black Light" (Nur al-Aswad) refers to a state of divine revelation so intense it blinds ordinary human perception and appears as deep black. It represents the Absolute Reality or the Divine Essence (Dhat) before creation—the "Hidden Treasure" that is beyond all form, duality, and sensory experience.
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Connecting the dots: constellations in the skies of old.
omdurman, sudan 1976
sheikh hamad al-nil tomb
photograph by nick dewolf https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/33565754258