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Sufi Heart with Omid Safi

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  • The Sufi Heart podcast with Omid Safi features teachings and stories about a sacred tradition of love, one that manifests outwardly as justice and inwardly as tenderness. Drawing primarily on the wisdom of the Islamic tradition as well as the legacies of the Civil Rights movements and other wisdom teachings, Omid invites you to a meditation on the transformative power of love and recalling the necessity of linking healing our own hearts with healing the world.

    Omid Safi is 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, Malcolm X, and is committed to traditions that link together love and justice.

    Omid is the past chair for the Study of Islam at the American Academy of Religion. He has written many books, including Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender, and Pluralism; Cambridge Companion to American Islam; Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam; and Memories of Muhammad. His forthcoming books include Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Traditions and a book on the famed mystic Rumi.

    Omid is among the most frequently sought out speakers on Islam in popular media, appearing in The New York Times, Newsweek, Washington Post, PBS, NPR, NBC, CNN, and other international media. 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 everyone, from every country. More information is available at Illuminated Tours.
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  • Ep. 31 – Hazrat Inayat Khan and the Sufi Path of Love

    Ep. 31 – Hazrat Inayat Khan and the Sufi Path of Love
    May 10 2024

    Sharing insights from the path of love, Omid Safi discusses the teachings of Sufi philosopher, Hazrat Inayat Khan.

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    In this episode of Sufi Heart, Omid Safi explores:

    • The universality of love
    • Coming back to the center
    • Experiencing God directly
    • Signs of God in scripture, nature, and our own souls
    • Having an open heart for all of humanity
    • Practicing love as a religion
    • Going into our breath for full presence and communion with God
    • How vast God is, yet how close we are to God
    • The singular focus of God as the beloved
    • The necessity of our ancestors’ wisdom
    • The path of the mystic vs. ordinary religion

    “The center is where we come to have that direct, immediate, unmediated experience of God, which is to say, the heart.” – Omid Safi

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    50 mins
  • Ep. 30 – The Lover and The Beloved with Kelly Deutsch

    Ep. 30 – The Lover and The Beloved with Kelly Deutsch
    Jan 23 2024

    Examining how mysticism hides in plain sight, Omid Safi describes God as love, the lover, and the beloved with guest host Kelly Deutsch.

    This episode was originally recorded for the Spiritual Wanderlust Podcast, with Kelly Deutsch. Learn more about this series that explores the wild, untamed frontiers of our interior life at spiritualwanderlust.org/podcast 

     This time on Sufi Heart, Omid Safi speaks with Kelly about:

    • Discovering Islamic Mystics
    • Sufism and having a pure heart
    • Omid’s life in Iran and exposure to masculine displays of emotion
    • The mystery of being human, the mystery of God
    • Heartbreak and experiencing the heart breaking open
    • Sacred Eroticism and using our senses to experience loveliness
    • What we can learn from the type of love a mother provides
    • Radical love and going into the roots
    • Linking together love and justice

    “The Sufis explicitly say something that of course we find also in the Christian mystical contemplative tradition. Mischievously, they almost say there is a holy trinity, a language which most orthodox Muslims would avoid and all Jews would have avoided. But they say the trinity is love, lover, and beloved. God is love, God is the lover, and God is the beloved.” – Omid Safi

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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Ep. 29 – "Islam, Iman, Ihsan", Love's Journey in Islamic Spirituality

    Ep. 29 – "Islam, Iman, Ihsan", Love's Journey in Islamic Spirituality
    Sep 5 2023

    Pushing beyond the bare minimum of religiosity, Omid Safi inspires listeners to deepen their faith into an ecstatic adoration of God.

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    In this episode of Sufi Heart, Omid Safi elucidates :

    • Islam and the unity of Allah
    • Iman as faith and Ihsan as virtue
    • Spirituality and Aesthetics
    • Doing what is required of us through religion
    • How Habib (the chosen one) inspired a deeper level of faith
    • How we can aspire to be in a state of love and adoration
    • The eyes of the heart versus the eyes of the head
    • Worshiping God for more than just salvation
    • Islamic Saints and their stories of experiencing Allah through beauty
    • Recognizing the unwavering divine presence of God
    • The eternal now and present moment awareness
    • Undivided attention as an act of love
    • Courtesy and recognizing our individual journeys
    • Being a beautiful witness

    “God is to be found here and now…the divine simply is not to be experienced in the afterlife, in the heavenly realms, in the celestial realm. Here and now where you are, where we are, we can come to experience Allah.” - Omid Safi

    You can join Omid on one of his heart-centered and spiritually-focused educational tours of:

    • Mecca and Medina Umrah program: December 14-21st, 2023. [For Muslim participants]
    • Morocco: April 13-22nd, 2024.
    • Turkey: somewhere in late May to early June, 2024.

    Further information is available at Illuminated Courses & Tours where you can also find information on virtual courses, spiritual talks, and more.


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    1 hr and 7 mins
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loving the lovers & all others is loving Allah, & I love Prof Omid Safi

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