Category Archives: Sacrilege

Letters on the Spiritual Path

Posted on February 19, 2018 by Ian Whiteman

We’re pleased to announce that a new translation of the Letters of Moulay Al-Arabi Darqawi has been scheduled for release this coming May. The following blurb by the translators, which will accompany its release, is self explanatory and hints at … Continue reading →

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Music to my Ears

Posted on June 18, 2017 by Ian Whiteman

My Ramadan afternoons, when the blood sugar reaches low levels, have been spent watching some of the lectures by Abdal Hakim Murad (Tim Winter) on YouTube given in his college’s annual retreat last year. I can strongly recommend his lecture … Continue reading →

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Unplanned Permanence

Posted on February 8, 2017 by Ian Whiteman

Whilst doing the washing up after supper last night it dawned on me that the fish slice I had just used to flip my egg-in-the nest was the actual fish slice my mother was using in the 1950s when I … Continue reading →

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The Passing of Martin

Posted on December 25, 2016 by Ian Whiteman

Picture Courtesy of Peter Sanders. Martin Stone passed away at 2am on the 8th November 2016 in Paris where he lived. Before joining the seminal rock group Mighty Baby in 1968 he had ventured into the world of the occult, … Continue reading →

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Pearls of the Faith

Posted on November 9, 2016 by Ian Whiteman

A book that recently left my desk to the printers after sitting in my computer for over ten years is the book illustrated above: Pearls of the Faith by British Victorian journalist and traveller Sir Edwin Arnold. First published in 1884 it … Continue reading →

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Small is Bountiful

Posted on September 26, 2016 by Ian Whiteman

In the year 2000, Shaykh Zaki Yamani, the erstwhile Saudi oil minister, gave a one-off lecture in London which I had the good fortune to attend. The lecture was about the house of Khadijah, may God be pleased with her, … Continue reading →

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