ISIS and Trumpism: Mirror images of Each other?
Bismillah er-Rahmen er-Raheem I’ve been noting that just as ISIL or ISIS is the natu…
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Earthquake with a Friend of Allah
(Below is an email from the older sister, Khalida, of Baji Tayyaba Khanum, from the area of the recent earthquake in Northern …
The Repetitions of Saints
In the Name of Allah, The All Merciful, The All Compassionate The repetitions of saints flow through every leaf and glisten ha…
Andalusian Calligraphy Film Project
Andalusian Calligraphy Project This is so worthy of our support, creators and projectors of the beauties of Islam and Sufism, …
Rumi Conference at Rosales in Granada, Spain
This is a worthy series of talks, to spend some time with… even in short takes. Dr. …
James Tate Passing & Poem
American poet, James Tate, died on July 8, 2015, at the age of 71. A wry writer of Patchen-like slightly nonsense narratives, …
Shaykh Muhammad ibn al-Habib (raheemahullah / 1876?-1972)
It’s always a difficult thing to talk about enlightened saints. One must be a little…
Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir As-Sufi al-Murabit (1930-)
Ian Dallas (now Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi) came to Berkeley in 1970 to meet me a…
Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (raheemahullah / ?-1986)
In the late 70s, Bawa came to San Francisco, and a small group of us put on our gree…
Zen Master Sensei Suzuki (raheemahullah / 1904-1971)
Painter Norman Steigelmeyer came all the way from San Francisco to where I was livin…
A Word About Collages
(Written for Wallingford Mad Poets reading, October 19, 2011) The collages on display are works I have been doing for the pa…
Choosing Islam: One Man’s Tale
I became a Muslim when it seemed I had already accepted Islam in my bones, as if bey…