"As for the new Sufi order’s dhikr prayer (frequently repeating the remembrance of God, a practice commanded often in Qur’an, and in which Sufis have long specialized), Rūmī’s dhikr, and therefore the dhikr of the Mawlawī order for future seven centuries, was “Allāh! Allāh!” Al-Aflākī related that the Regent of Qūniya (Konya), Mu‘īn al-Dīn Parwāna,—after mentioning that the Sufi sheikhs of the past had their daily litanies [awrād] and remembrance practices [dhikrs], such as, “There is no divinity except God!” [lā ilāha ‘illā ‘llāh], “Except (only) God!” [illā ‘llāh], “There is no power and strength except with Him, the Highest, the Greatest [lā ḥawla wa lā quwwata illā bi ‘llāhi ‘l-‘aliyyi ‘l-‘aẓīm], “Him, Him!” [Hū, Hū]—as in the case of dervishes of Turkestān, “I seek the forgiveness of God, the most Great! ” [astaghfiru ‘llāhu ‘l-‘aẓīm], and “Glory (be) to God! And glory (be) to God, and praise and gratitude!” [subhāna ‘llāhi wa bi-ḥamdih]. When Rūmī was asked about his remembrance prayer-chant [dhikr] , he replied: “Our dhikr is ‘Allāh, Allāh, Allāh!’ because we are those who belong to God [mā Allāhiyyānīm], and since ‘we come from God and we will return to God’ [Qur’an 2:156]. And it was reported that Rūmī would lean his head against the wall of the madrasa and say, “Allāh, Allāh!” continually during long nights."
--From the forthcoming book by Hülya Küçük and Ibrahim Gamard, "Sultan Walad: In the Footsteps of Two Masters, Rumi and Shams".
Ibrahim
You're all still asking the wrong question though my friends... the question is not, "Is this quote from a poet who died 700 years ago real or fake?"The question we should we asking is, here and now is, "Am I real or fake?!"Who are you? What words of truth can you speak?The rest is all just distraction, and could go on endlessly...
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