The First Beloved: A 1,000-Year-Old Sufi Text on the Nature of Love

<p><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" width="640" height="390" src="https://www.inoreader.com/yt-embed/?v=BAo3F4003ag" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" style="width:100%;aspect-ratio:16/9;height:auto;display:block;border:0;" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>The Brethren of Purity on the nature of love. A primary-source transmission from the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa, translated from the Arabic.<br> <br> Sometime in tenth-century Basra, an anonymous brotherhood known as the Ikhwan al-Safa, the Brethren of Purity, composed fifty-two epistles and hid their names inside them. <br> <br> The thirty-seventh treats the nature of love. What you are hearing is its text, carried over into English straight from the Arabic, with the framing voice kept to a minimum.<br> <br> The Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa is one of the great encyclopedias of medieval Islamic thought, a meeting point of Sufism, Islamic Neoplatonism, Pythagorean number, and the esoteric sciences.<br> <br> It was read for centuries across the Sufi and Ismaili traditions and shaped the language of divine love that later runs through Ibn Arabi and the philosophy of ishq. <br> <br> This epistle ends on the line the whole tradition turns on: <br> God is the First Beloved, and the sphere turns only out of longing toward Him.<br> <br> SpiritualRelief transmits classical Sufi and Islamic mystical literature through primary sources. <br> <br> Subscribe for more from Ibn Arabi, al-Ghazali, Suhrawardi, Najm al-Din Razi, Ruzbihan Baqli, and the wider worlds of Islamic mysticism, Sufi metaphysics, and Neoplatonism.<br> <br> Topics: Brethren of Purity, Ikhwan al-Safa, Rasail Ikhwan al-Safa, Sufi philosophy of love, ishq, divine love in Islam, the First Beloved, Islamic mysticism, Islamic Neoplatonism, medieval Islamic philosophy, emanation, the soul and union, tenth-century Basra, esoteric Islam, Sufism explained, primary source Sufi text.<br> <br> #sufism #islamicmysticism #sufi #islamicphilosophy #divine #ishq #spirituality <br> <br> MORE FROM SPIRITUALRELIEF<br> Music <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@UCBo3tQklTFD_10GtJx8mAmA">https://www.youtube.com/@UCBo3tQklTFD_10GtJx8mAmA</a> <br> Express Your Support Through A YouTube channel membership:<br> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb2GDYQwKx6lYfvJCZCHx0w/join">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb2GDYQwKx6lYfvJCZCHx0w/join</a><br> Essays and translations <a href="https://spiritualrelief.substack.com">https://spiritualrelief.substack.com</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAo3F4003ag" target="_blank">- Enlace a artículo -</a></p> <p>Más info en https://ift.tt/gXwHmp1 / Tfno. & WA 607725547 Centro MENADEL (Frasco Martín) Psicología Clínica y Tradicional en Mijas. #Menadel #Psicología #Clínica #Tradicional #MijasPueblo</p> <p>*No suscribimos necesariamente las opiniones o artículos aquí compartidos. No todo es lo que parece.</p>