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    Amir Khusro

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    Sufism is described as being in love with divine love. A true Sufi surrenders completely to God through passionate love, dissolving their ego and becoming one with the beloved. This mirrors the Bhakti yoga of Hinduism. Historians trace Sufism's roots to Prophet Muhammad who imparted esoteric revelations to a select few. However, Sufis believe its essential truths exist in all religions, as Sufism has absorbed the cultures it has flowed through. The author, navigating to the shrine of Amir Khusro, was disappointed to find it had lost its sublime aura due to neglect and commercialization.

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    Sufism is described as being in love with divine love. A true Sufi surrenders completely to God through passionate love, dissolving their ego and becoming one with the beloved. This mirrors the Bhakti yoga of Hinduism. Historians trace Sufism's roots to Prophet Muhammad who imparted esoteric revelations to a select few. However, Sufis believe its essential truths exist in all religions, as Sufism has absorbed the cultures it has flowed through. The author, navigating to the shrine of Amir Khusro, was disappointed to find it had lost its sublime aura due to neglect and commercialization.

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    A short article describing the sad state of Amir Khusro's tomb in New Delhi, India

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    Sufism is described as being in love with divine love. A true Sufi surrenders completely to God through passionate love, dissolving their ego and becoming one with the beloved. This mirrors the Bhakti yoga of Hinduism. Historians trace Sufism's roots to Prophet Muhammad who imparted esoteric revelations to a select few. However, Sufis believe its essential truths exist in all religions, as Sufism has absorbed the cultures it has flowed through. The author, navigating to the shrine of Amir Khusro, was disappointed to find it had lost its sublime aura due to neglect and commercialization.

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    Amir Khusro

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    Sufism is described as being in love with divine love. A true Sufi surrenders completely to God through passionate love, dissolving their ego and becoming one with the beloved. This mirrors the Bhakti yoga of Hinduism. Historians trace Sufism's roots to Prophet Muhammad who imparted esoteric revelations to a select few. However, Sufis believe its essential truths exist in all religions, as Sufism has absorbed the cultures it has flowed through. The author, navigating to the shrine of Amir Khusro, was disappointed to find it had lost its sublime aura due to neglect and commercialization.

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    SUFISM: BEING IN LOVE WITH LOVE

    Rupa Abdi

    As I navigated my way through the maze of lanes in Nizammudin West in Delhi,


    that led to the durgah of Amir Khusro, I was appalled by the filth, and crass
    commercialization that seem to ooze from every corner of those lanes. ‘Could these lanes
    really lead me to the shrines of the greatest Sufis of India …?’, I wondered to myself,
    struck by the irony of the fact that the final resting place of such divine a soul was now
    surrounded by the basest of human passions.
    ‘Who were these beings called ‘Sufis’ …?’. They were of flesh but without its
    weaknesses, ever lost in the love of the Divine. Yearning, seeking and then rejoicing in
    the union with their Beloved. One cannot define Sufism, or for that matter mysticism, it
    would be like trying to hold water in a clenched fist. A true Sufi is in love with Love.
    Love that is all encompassing and infinite, for isn’t love another name for God? The great
    Sufi poet Rumi describes this Love as “drinking without quenching”. The essence of
    Sufism is to be in love with God with such intense passion that it leads to the dissolution
    of the Self (fana) and the lover becomes one with the Beloved.
    It is in essence similar to the Bhakti Yoga of Hinduism. Complete love leads to
    complete surrender to the will of God. With the ego no longer an obstacle ‘illusion’ is
    replaced by ‘awareness’ of the divine nature of all things. However one cannot be
    initiated into Sufism by reading about it or practicing the various rituals associated with it
    or by contemplation. It is a spontaneous process like falling in love. It just happens to you
    by divine grace or not at all.
    Historians describe Sufism as the mystical core of Islam, tracing its roots to
    Prophet Mohammad who is believed to have received two-fold revelations – the one
    embodied in the holy Koran and the other in his heart. The former was meant for all and
    the latter was to be imparted to a selected few through a line of succession. However
    according to Sufis, the essential truths of Sufism exists in all religions. Sufism is like
    river which has been flowing through many lands, imbibing the culture and religion of
    the region it flows through.
    As I reached the durgah, waving aside the various hawkers selling all kinds of
    ‘religious’ trinkets, I was in for a disappointment. The durgah itself seemed to have been
    robbed of its sublime aura by the decades of decadence that had befallen the people in
    charge of it upkeep. The so called ‘custodians’ of the durgah had become scavengers of
    religious faith. I returned home to my collection of Khusro’s soul stirring compositions,
    they were now his only incorruptible legacy.

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