Illuminating Hazrat Inayat Khan’s teachings on radical love, Omid Safi leads listeners down the Sufi path of love, harmony, and beauty.
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This time on Sufi Heart, Omid provides a lesson on:
- The Sufi tradition of radical love, universal harmony, and experiencing beauty
- Hazrat Inayat Khan’s timely and timeless teachings
- Music as a sacred bridge between cultures and a channel for divine connection
- The universality of love across religions and wisdom traditions
- Seeing the unity in the multiplicity and the multiplicity in the unity
- The reduction of love to romantic ideals and reclaiming its divine essence
- Radical love, loving all beings, and the claim that love is God
- The mystical poetry of Hazrat Inayat Khan and Rumi
- The ultimate unity of love, lover, and beloved
- Seeing each one of our faculties—sight, sound, breath, as a portal to see and be seen by God
- The symphony of creation and what it may sound like if we operated in harmony
- How global disharmony—social, political, and ecological—reflects spiritual/inner disconnection
- Harmony as one of the keys that connects the human realm to the divine realm
- The divine light of God, which is hidden in each of our souls
- Surrendering willingly to beauty and allowing it to connect us to the divine mystery of God
This episode was part of a longer conversation with friends over at Spiritual Wanderlust. Omid encourages listeners to check out that offering, part of their series on “Mystics and Prophets”, HERE.
“The path of radical love makes an extraordinary claim. The claim is fundamentally the notion that there is no ultimate divide between the love of God and the love of creation. Love is one. Love is not merely a quality of God, love is God. It is the very being, very essence, very heart of God.” – Omid Safi
About Omid Safi:
Dr. Omid Safi is the director of Duke University’s Islamic Studies Center. He specializes in the study of Islamic mysticism and contemporary Islam and frequently writes on liberationist traditions of Dr. King and Malcolm X, and is committed to traditions that link together love and justice. He leads spiritual tours every year to Turkey, Morocco, or other countries, to study the rich multiple religious traditions there. The trips are open to everyonefrom every country. More information is available at Illuminated Courses & Tours.