I think that's probably the case with just about everyone.

Not me. I'm about 90% wrong 10% right but watch yerself when I think I got that 10% mojo risin. I'll have to look over rumi's links but it sounds like sufis parallel the mystics in RCism, Buddism, and elsewhere, just looking for that transcendent experience which often has little to do with the way the religion they're rooted in is organized. But now I have to follow the link so I don't get picked off.

I'm acutality right 100% of the tiem.

But keep arguing and discussing i'm enjoying this thread.


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Juju, that's the funniest quote I've read in a long time! I'll have to add that one to my repertoire. :)

That's the funniest quote I've seen in a while.

It turns out that "Rumi' is the name of an important Sufi poet. Winds of Change, a blog I read, links to this poem today:

http://www.libertyadvance.org/rumi.m....shepherd.html

In it, Allah speaks to Moses to tell him that any way of worship is a good way:

What seems wrong to you is right for him.
What is poison to one is honey to someone else.

Purity and impurity, sloth and diligence in worship,
these mean nothing to Me.

I am apart from all that.
Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better
or worse than one another.

Hindus do Hindu things.
The Dravidian Muslims in India do what they do.
It's all praise, and it's all right.

It's not Me that's glorified in acts of worship.
It's the worshipers! I don't hear the words
they say. I look inside at the humility.

Rumi, preaching tolerance in the 13th century. It is excellent.

Rumi's writings are very cool, BUT.... They had snowshoes in the early 13th century? If this is a mistake in translation by E. Shepard then are there other mistakes that are more significant?

TURKEY
Culmination of my coverage for the November 1987 article on Süleyman the Magnificent was photographing the dervishes of the Mevlevi Order in Istanbul. Each December the group commemorates the death of their founder in 1273 by performing this ritual dance with the right hand facing heaven, left hand facing earth. Their spinning symbolizes the planets revolving around God.