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The Wisdom of the Bees

Filed under Politics, Spirituality, Islam

What can the humble honeybee teach us about divine wisdom, revelation and the hidden patterns that connect different levels of reality?

In the Qur’an, bees receive a form of divine revelation. Their remarkable geometry and social organisation invite us to contemplate the relationship between the microcosm and the macrocosm — and the possibility that the same underlying archetypes manifest across seemingly different worlds.

In this post I explore these connections through the Qur’an, the Islamic intellectual tradition and the geometry of Arabic calligraphy.

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The Spiritual Journey of Noah

Filed under Islam, Religion, Spirituality, Sufism

This text is an English translation of a Khutba (sermon) given in Spanish by Sidi Hashim Cabrera, specifically Khutba 4 from the book ‘Khutbas of Dar-as-Salam’. The Quranic translations are by Muhammad Asad, but I have done the translation from Spanish myself and am responsible for any errors. I have left many of the key Arabic terms untranslated, as per the original sermon. A key term is ‘maqaam’ meaning ‘spiritual station’. Another key term is ’nafs’ meaning ‘soul’.

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