Concept 15 · Persia · Rumi · Hafiz · Attar · Ibn Arabi · the Sufi tradition · 8th century onward

Rumi is the bestselling poet in America. No one is practicing what he wrote.

Coleman Barks's Rumi translations have sold over five million copies. Hafiz is quoted at weddings, painted on walls, printed on coffee mugs. Yet almost no one in the West has practiced what they were writing about. Sufism — the mystical heart of Islam, with roots in 8th-century Iraq and Persia and flowerings in Anatolia, Khorasan, Andalusia, and the Indian subcontinent — is the longest unbroken mystical tradition in the world. The path is specific: dhikr through the breath, sama' (listening as prayer), fana (annihilation in the Beloved), the Seven Valleys, 'ishq (passionate divine love). This page is its working bench — every module reads what you write and returns the Sufi tradition's response to your specific case.

On this page: an in-page Dhikr timer with five traditional phrases; the Seven Valleys map (Attar) with tailored guidance for whichever you are in; the 'Ishq audit (preparing vs substituting); the Heart Polish that matches the rust on your heart to a specific phrase-antidote; the Fana inventory; the Wine Cup ecstasy reading; the Suhbat companionship audit; daily Tawba with streak; the Whirling reflection; and 30 voices from Rumi, Hafiz, Attar, Ibn Arabi, Al-Ghazali, Rabi'a, Shams, Junayd, and Inayat Khan.